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ON SPENDING SUNDAY
IN FRESH OUT-OF-DOORS
70 the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
Some scientists and literary people,
as well as many indoor employees. in
increasing numbers spend most of the
pleasant Sundays these "nature-study"
times In the wilds of nature studying
plants, birds, insects. etc, and enjoy
ing landscapes and everything else out
doors, basking in the pure air and
sweet sunshine. making a real sun"
day of 1t. finding It all necessary to
their health, while the indoor worship
ers shut themselves off from all this
during the best part OF the day by
gloomy church walls and stained-glass
windows, breathing the air made foul
by skin and lung exhalations and
(WhewD from those packed around
them, and even from themselves! The
best of the day being thus broken up.
the remainder of the day after dinner
is too short and gloomy, sometimes
chilly and rainy toward evening, as 1t
is apt to be in the spring season. Thus
they become Disguised with IT and cam
not see why anyone should have a
good word to say in favor of outings.
EWING SUMMERS.
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A MILLION FOR ART.

The gift of million dollars to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art by wealthy banker of that city
should go long way toward cultivatng the artistic
spirit in this country. Many of the benefactions in
recent years have been in favor of scientific inves
cations and for the improvement of education in a
general sense.
No one would have had these donations applied
otherwise, for the Importance of closer nveStiga
ton of scientific truths and a wider dissemination Of
scientific knowledge is a matter of the first impor-
lance. But at the same time cannot afford to
neglect the artistic side of life. The coming of the
Morgan collection to this country will be one of the
most notable events in our history.
Indeed it is hoped the time is not far distant when
we may have something like national museum Of
art and the place for such collection would be here
in Washington. We have a small nucleus for such
IA display already, and if the movement were once
under way perhaps the benefactors would rise up,
like this New York banker, who would make requests
from time to time
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1912.
BREAKING INTO THE SOLID" SOUTH.

The empire State of the South is breaking away
from the Administrators machine of Federal Office
holders, and lining up for Roosevelt.
J Reports from the delegate contest in Texas in
dictate plainly that Roosevelt will dominate the big
delegation of forty that will be sent to Chicago.
! Missouri will go the same way; most of Okla
homa will 60 along; Tennessee and Kentucky, North
Carolina and Arkansas will contribute to the Roose
welt column.
/ The South will be so seriously divided, from
present indications, that the real business of nomi-
mating will be left to the delegates from North, West,
and Midwest.
The outcome there cannot be regarded as un-
certain. Republican or possibly Republican territory
wants a man who can win.
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What's on the Program in
Washington Today

Ball by the Naval Gun Factory Band
Pleasure Club, Washington Navy
Yard: S:45 p. IN.
The, following Masonic organlza tons
VIII meet tonight: Lodges-National,
No. u, l.. A.; Arminius, No y, bust
ness; Myron NJ; Parker, No. q. +. A.;
King David. No. q, NJ. NJ. Royal
No: 6; Lafayette. No. 5, Mark. Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite-Mithras
Lodge OF Perfection, business. Eastern
Star Chapters-Ruth, No. !.
will meet tonight Webster, No. :;
Excelsior. No. II; Capital. No. "a, and
Myrtle, No. IS. business.
The following l. o; Q; F. lodges will
G GSSt 'o Rue No. W2 a Hm2 No. No.
and Phoenix, No. %. business.
Meeting of Congressional Circle. No
sos, p. H. c, Pythlan Temple, 1850
Address on tho number of troons in
the Confederate army, by tie Recv.
Randolph II MCKim, Confederate
Memorial Hall. y. m.
Military hop by the Old Guard, Grand
Army of the Republic. G. a. r. Hall,
Monthly meeting of the Petwcrth Cit
izcns' AssO iatlon. Petworth Metho-
dist Church, Eighth and Shepherd
Fifth annual ball by the international
Union of Steam Engineers, Old Ma
sonic Temple. s p. m.
Minstrel show for the benefit of ath-
leticss at The Mckinley Manual Train
ing School tonight
Celebration of Washington's birthday,
Ketcham School, this afternoon
Meeting of Teachers Training Associa-
ton alumni. at Wesley Chapel. p. IN.
Meeting of Washington Society OF En-
gineers, Cosmos Club hall, p. m.
Lecture on cost OF living, by F. ii. New
ell, Public Library hall, Sis p. m.
Gallery DrartiCe for the. signal corps
commissioned officers of the First
Battalion, Second Infantry, of the
District National Guard, Center
Market Armory. p. m.
Lecture by Lieut., ]. j. simons, with
Suffrage in Australia" Washington
Chamber of Commerce, p. m.
Health lecture by pr Elnora c., Folk
Institute. Epiphany Hall, 7:3O p. m.
Meeting of the Anthropological Society,
New National Museum, p. IN.
Lecture, THE Sons of Zion VS.. the Sons
Flynns Hall, Eighth and X streets
northwest. s p. m.
Lecture, Commercial Fruit CROWNS
Gould. Y. NJ. c. A. tonight.
Lecture, Some Practical Phases Of the
Divorce Question" the Rev. Frank
J. Goodwin. before the Congress OF
Mothers, the Raleigh, $50 p, m.
Regular meeting of the Columbia His
torical Society, Washington Club
s p. m.
! Meeting of the Washington alumni OF
the University of Chicago, at the Y
NJ c. A., tonight.
| Annual supper OF st. JoseThs Parish
National Rifles Armory, u. m.
Meeting of the directors OF the Noe
House, this afternoon.
Meeting Of the Civil Service Council
| Public Library, SIS D IN.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20
SHAKESPEARE PLAYS
ALTERED AFTER 1916

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
on page lis of Francis Bacon our
Shakc-sI care" BIZ the late Edwin Reed,
A. NJ, Is printed a table of thirteen
Shakespeare plays that had been al
tered, added to and portions taken away
from, the quarto editions of 1919, and
1922, for the folio edition of 1923. Five of
these pla"s had 1000 or more lines add
ed. also many hundred lines retCuched
The edition of 1919 was printed three
wears after "Willm ShaEfper" u563-l 1910
mad been buried in the Stratford Church
Did "Willm' pop out of his grave three
separate times, prepare the editions Of
1919 lG92 and 1923 for the printer and
return to his seDuicher3 The Shagspcr-
ties have proposed and assumed many
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20
SENATE WATERS WAGES
HAVE BEEN REDUCED

TO the Editor OF THE TINES:
l was eating in the Senate cafe the
other day and was talking to one Of
the walters, who told me things have
changed there since the last time be
worked in that cafe. There was a great
change in the wages, as they are only
getting half time pay, when last year
they got full time, which was 500 a
month, and now they get $l15 a day
and some get $3.50 a day Now ! am
Going to help the walters at the Senate
cafe, to see IL the Government or that
big man who has charge of 1t. think
Senator Crane knows of It. ! don't
think the Government pay such a wage
as $l.l5 a day and no tips II the wait
don't some one speak for them? why
were the wages cut down this year
when Mr.. Sterne took charge OF II?
FRANK BALL.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20
POPULAR GOVERNMENT WINS.

The Supreme Court which decides that the init
alive and referendum provision of the Oregon con-
Stituton is not to be nterfered with by the judicial
side of the Government represents long step in
social perceptions from that court which sustained
the fugitive slave law. The fugitive slave decision
required the substance, if not the form, of direct
REVERSAL and that would have been the fate of
decision against the Oregon direct legislation pro-
vision.
1t is not fair to charge the court with lodging
1t holds that the Oregon direct legislation provision
is not the affair of the judicial division of the Cow
eminent; it is for the political side to deal with. If
Congress does not like the system, it can refuse to
seat Senators and Representatives from States that
have direct legislation provisions in their organic
acts.
In way, this appears to refer the matter to Con-
gress. But in fact it is res judicata there-so far
as an affair of legislative policy can ever be res
judcata. Congress voted to admit Oklahoma and
Arizona, with direct legislation provisions in their
constitutions it has seated Senators and Represent
atves from Oregon, Maine, South Dakota, Missouri
and Oklahoma all of them having the same direct
legislation system in operation. The Executive has
performed his part in those admissions Mr.. Roose-
welt in the case of Oklahoma Mr.. Taft in the case
of Arizona. Finally, it would be quite unthinkabIe
that at this late day the political branch of the Gov
eminent would awaken 10 the 1aCt mat near fourth
of the people of the nation we're living under unre-
publican State governments.
The mind of the Supreme Court toward this
question was better indicated by the questions of the
justices during the argument than it is by the opin-
ion The court declines to decide whether the Ore
gon system is republican; it says that the political
branch of the Government must pass on that But
the line of questioning with which the judges fol-
lowed the lawyers during the arguments made clear
that the judges, as individuals, were almost unani-
nous in the conviction that the Oregon system is
publican 1t is good guess that if the conversations
in the conference room could be known, they would
show that a good majority of the court wanted to
settle the matter by saying squarely that Oregon has
a republican government but as the Supreme Court
never assumes to decide more than it must the coun-
sci of conservatism prevails, and the court put the
whole business up to Congress, knowing full we'll
that Congress would never decide against the popular
government system.
The decision is one of the great historic that
the court has delivered. 1t will be known and re-
called as accurate and just, when even the Dart,
mouth College case is forgotten or essentially re,
| vised
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20
TEN DOLLARS THE SUM
LOST ON HORSE DEAL
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
While agreeing with Mr.. NJ. C. Wal
tiers in his letter of the 18th instant,
that 1t Is not necessary to know the
original cost of the horse Gin the horse
nroblem), ! beg to differ with him in
regard to the amount of money lost IN
the deal, and will endeavor to show him
that $40 was the sum lost. As an illus
tration, suppose we say that the horse
was sold for &5, bought back for $50,
gold again for $45 (pIice of first saieJ,
there would be loss of IS only, but, as
the problem states that the horse was
sold last for $40, instead OF $40, as have
said In my illustration, there would be
an additional IS loss, thus making the
total amount lost $40.
Do you get IT, Mr.. Walters?
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CONTRIBUTOR RECEIVES
THREATENING LETTER
TO the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor of THE TINES:
The enclosed brave 90 letter, which is
the only reply have had to one printed
by your courtesy over my full sigma
ture. has just reached my office, per-
haps by misdirection, and l hasten to
forward 1t, hoping you may find 1t
printable. While its statements of fact
leave something to be desired, it's logic
Is quito unique and 1t is sufficiently
definite. Yours very gratefully.
s. J. MACFARREN.
Letter received Saturday morning at 3,
postmarked $50 p. IN.
[COPY.l
City, Feb H. 1912.
Samuel J. MaCfaTren.
Dear Sir: You thick headed Scotch lmbecile
please attend to your own business and do
not mix up with the plate printers affairs.
If you ever write another letter to The
Washington Times and II is published your
days are numbered. You old reprobate you
should be thinking Of hell where you and all
your Scotch friends will reside forever and
not mix up in American methods. Why in the
hell don't you go back to Scotland and starve
to death there. You are too old and decrepit
an imbecile to mix in this world and unless
you keep your mouth shut you will be in
hell earlier than you expect. FRIEND.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20
WANTS ENLIGHTENMENT
ON EXODUS FROM EGYPT

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
Having asked for satisfactory scien-
tific verification of the watery increase
in the narrative of the Deluge, and
which has not been given, but ELECTED
such inquiry into the transportation, aC-
cohabitatiOn, sanitation,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20
HOW MANY ACRES
ARE IN EACH FARM

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
There are three farmers-Smlth, Jones
and Brown. Each one owns a farm
The amount of acres in all the farms
together are $500. Now, Smith has 900
more acres than Jones, and Jones has
900 more acres than Brown. How many
acres has each? r. A. G.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20

keeps alive the tapestries of the first King Francis to
delight twentieth century eyes,
There are many demands on the grandmothers
whose very presence is as lavender and old lace in
a garsh age but the world will owe them, an additional
debt if they can follow the example of the Chicago
circle whose quilting is one of the real arts which
the world would not willingly let die.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20

the repetition Of such a crime as the
angling of a woman. Call Il sentiment,
or by whatever name you Dloasc-I
would rather my hand be raIsied and
the execution of a woman. Better let
poor. unfortunate Matte Lomax go
free, AMI in the language of our sa-
vior and Master, say to her. go thy
way and sin no more"
LUKE w. coNERI.Y.
CulfpOrt Mius
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20
RIGHT OF PEDESTRIANS
AT STREET CROSSINGS

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
l have read with much pleasure your
editorial of 9Th instant entitled Man
slaughter BY Automobiles" and beg
that you will ascertain and inform the
citizens of Washington whether the law
which gives pedestrians the right of
way at street crossings has ever been
repealed. SUBSCRIBER"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20
Amusements.

NationaI-"Get-Rich-Q uick Walling-
ford" Sis p. IN.
Coiumbia-George Evans Ministries, sis
p. IN.
Chase s-Nat NJ. Wills and polite vaude-
Vile. els and sis p. m.
White Slave" 2:l5 and
S:l5 p. m.
Casino--George Primrose, and vaude-
Vile, 1870. 7:45, and . y. m.
CosmOs-Naudeville, to II p. m.
y. m.
Lyceum-"Girls From Missouri" els
and S:l5 p. m.
Arcade-skaung, bowling, and motion
pictures.
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ARMY.

Captain WILLIAM S. BOWEN, Coast
Artillery Corps, transferred from
Thu y-thlrd to ThiIty-fourth Conn
pany.
Captain LAWRENCE c. CRAWFORD,
Coast Artillery Corps, relieved from
duty ut Fort Monroh, Va, to join
Forty. sixth Company.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20

nA language Letters % exec, 2Odm monty
Thou
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ARMY AND NAVY ORDERS

CommdMd Submarine Al, to Seattle
Wash
Ensign +. r. CHEW, detached iris to
command Submarine Al
EUgign C. Nj. JAMES, detnC hCd Chester;
to Pennsylvania and Pacific Reserve
SquadTOn.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20

Lieut. F. M. Kennedy has the sympathy of a host
of friends in his accident sustained by the fall of his
biPlane at Augusta yesterday. His early recovery
is hoped for.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20
NAVY.

Lieutenant J. = WOODS, deta' hei St
Louis; To Intrepid.
Lieutenant J. p. OLORINC, detached
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MOVEMENTS OF VESSELS.

Arrived Maryland aud Promethcus at
Panama; Saratoga 1t OionCupoi
CulsOa IT Guantanamo.
Sailed Washington fr"!n Norfolk to
Palm Beach; Cincinnati from ChcCoo
to Shanghai; Celtic from Hampton
Roads TO Boston,
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Total for the month. j, 2SS, O3O
Daily average for month. 1850
The net total circulation of
The Washington Times daily
during the month of January
was l, 1O4, $50, all copies left over
and returned being eliminated.
This number. when divided by
q. the number OF days Of pub
LEGATION, shows the net daily
average for January to have
been 40,922.
solemnly swear that the acc
circulation of The Washington
net figures represent all returns
Of The Times which are sold, {
bona fide purchasers or subscrlt
District of Columbia. ss:
Subscribed and sworn to befc
A. d. 1912, A
(Seal
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JANUARY CIRCULATION

g.. DAILY.
The number of complete and
perfect copies of The Washing
ton Times printed daily during
the month Of January was as
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-02-20

Sunday av'gc for month. 42,6SO
The net total circulation OF
The Washington Times lSun-
day. during the month of Janu-
airy was 1i6, 504, all copies left
over and returned by agents
being eliminated. This number,
when divided by 4, the number
OF Sundays during January,
shows the net Sunday average
for January to have been Sc, 626,
Entered at the PostoffiCe at
Washington, ID. c.. as second
class matter.
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SUNDAY.
The number OF complete and
perfect copies of The Washing
ton Times printed Sundays dur
ing the month OF January was
as follows:
7.......iO,51 2l........45, 129
l4.........42,2l7 2S.......42,77 I'll
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Total for the month. ITO, 72l
Sunday av'gc for month. 42,6SO
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Secretary The Question Club.
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February Is, 1912.
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Gulfport. Miss.
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ScuIliag Champion
ship Goes to England.

London. July 29-Ernest Barry. the
English champion sculer, today, de
feated Richard Arnst OF Australia in a
race over the Thames course for the
seuiling championship Of the world.
Richard Arnst, the holder OF the IL
tie, started the race with the prestige
eff 4 previous victory over Bury, whom
he mad defeated on the Zambes in Au-
Gust. 1910. Barry had been anxious tor
another attempt to defeat the worlds
champion and for the chance Of bring
ing the title back to England, where Il
had not been held by an Englishman
since 1876.
The contrast between the rival soul
lers, both in action and physique, could
scarcely have been greater. Arnst,
standing feet. inch, is so finely pro-
partioned that he did not look the
height nor did he seem to be carrying
his announced weight of 200 pounds.
Barry is more 1.-THE in form, but was
muscled in manner, which proved
that he was equally strong. In style.
Arast seemed to have superior thrust
ing power. but Barry showed better
form.
The race was for a purse of $1,000 and
the championship cup. which had been
held for several years by Arnst.
The contest was a close one over the
first half of the course, after which
Barry drew ahead steadily and was
leading by four lengths half mile
from the finish. Arnst then stopped
rowing and Barry crossed the winning
line 20 lengths ahead. Arnst padded
slowly after him.
The distance of the race was Az
miles and Barrys time was % minutes.
s seconds.
Great crowds lined the banks of the