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The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

boys who got drowned in consequence
of venturing into the water. He took
the tip and gave up the idea of know
ing how to SWIM OF course, neither
he nor his parents had any idea then
that he was going to grow up and be
Secretary of the Navy.
After he had been in his present Job
for few years, It occurred TO Meyer
that 1t was somewhat incongruous for
the Secretary of the Navy to be, may
be- the only man in the whole navy who
couldn't swim. So he shut down his desk
one morning a few months ago and went
up to the local Y. NJ. c. A, where they
have a big indoor swimming pool, and
explained his plight. In a few days he
had mastered the breast stroke and grad
ually became a first-rate swimmer.
Arthur Krock. who represents 'Marse'
Henry watterson's Courier-Journal IN
Washington, is a young person with a
great variety Of words incarcerated In
his cupola. On occasion he can use many
of these words verbally in a manner
that is mystifying to all except the
elect.
A few evenings ago a panhandler
stopped Krock on Pennsylvania Avenue
and asked him for aims. II seems that
the same man mad Dade nm pause a
Eight or two previous with a similar re-
quest. and Krock. recalling this, al
dressed him as follows:
Thou fustian knave, dost thou not
know that 1 handed thee two shiIIIngs
only yester nightg Why. prithee, must
/ give ear to such tales of woe from one
-ho squanders his substance nightly for
rum and ale and seeks not at all to
gain the emoluments of honest labor?
A murrain on such indolent rascals!
Money, forsoothl Were't not that
abhor the sight of blood ] would cen
now snip on thy ears. What II thou
'dost lack wealth. DO LANDS and con-
cubines and the kings favor give peace
of spirit withaI? Cease to utter such
vain things"
with hands clutched at brow for five
minutes looking after him and marvel
ing.
The clerk to the Senate Committee on
Private Land Claims Is an affable man
named John 4. neutrality-suspicious.
the way the French pronounce sucn
words.
with the committee one day ana asked
Mr.. er~see aboye-what his name was
The clerk repeated it over several times,
at first briskly and then slowly. TiIlman
shook his head. s
Il think III Just call you Mr. Buffalo.
he said. solemnly. ''f you don't mind. :"
And ever since then that is what Till-
man has called him.
Copyright. isi5. By Ff~d c. Kelly. An Iishts NJ
<erIedl
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02
CITY OFFICIALS FOUND GUILTY

Philadelphia, Feb. 1.-Henry Clay. for
mer director of public safety: John X.
Virgins, contractor. and Willard II.
Wall. contractor, were found guilty to-
Cay of charges of conspiracy TO defraud
the city by means of fraudulent con-
tracts. Carl b. Zilensiger. city archi-
tect. was found not guilty.
The jury was out twenty-four hours
The verdict created a great sensation. as
II was expected that Zilensiser would
be convicted and the other men freed.
The men were held under saOe bond'
pending argument for new trial.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

Frum the New York Sun.
As for Austria, the rise Of the Balkan
Slavs has had an immediate and unmis-
taxable effect upon the Austrian Slavs
who are a majority OF Francis Joseph's
subjects. For the Adriatic provinces II
has meant a renewal Of the dream of
restoration OF the ancient Serb Empire
For the Czech. the Pole, the Ruthenian,
the SIovsk, the Slovene. It has been a
signal to new resistance to the German
element at Vienna. War with Russia
now. particularly 20 restrict the Balkan
Slavs' boundaries might easily mean civ
II war, and the value Of the Austrian
army, half Of whose troops at least are
Slav, Is doubtful
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02
STA ESMEN-REAL AND NEAR
By FRED c. KELLY

When Representative Victor Murdock
was sporting editor Of the Chicago Inter
Ocean some twenty years ago. a man
named Sheridan was sporting editor OF
the Record. and they met frequently at
the baseball park. covering games.
One day Sheridan was seized with an
uncomfortable impulse to visit for a
couple of days with some folks at
Greencastle. Ind, and he asked Victor
II he woull write the baseball stuff for
both papers during his brief absence.
Victor, who even in those days. was an
accommodating citizen. said II would give
him a great deal OF pleasure to write
two versions of the games-that he never
was able to say all he wanted to In one
paper, anyhow. Sheridan made his visit,
came back and thanked Victor, and the
Incident was apparently closed.
Now. all that. you understand, was
twenty years ago.
But week before last, Vic. Murtiock, in
opening his Congressional mail, picks up
a letter and check for IS from Sheridan
who is now occupying the chair of
journalism at the University of WASH
ington out in Seattle.
The letter says. substantially: Il al
ways neglected to pay you for writing
up those ball games for me that time In
Chicago. As i recall the space rates
then prevailing, you are entitled to about
s. including interest"
But Victor hadn't done the work with
any idea OF getting paid for 1t, and he
didn't want his old friends money. Yet
to return the check seemed like pro-
sale thing to do. He wished he could
think of something appropriate to buy
with the IS and send 1t to Sheridan, or
make some other clever use of 1t. even
il only to found a home for baseball
writer's. For the life of him, he couldn't
think of a single clever thing to do with
the S. He walked uptown. cashed the
check, and tucked the money in a little
pocket by itself until he could conceive
an original way to spend it.
Since then Victor has been wearing an
distracted air. like dog trying to re-
call the location of buried bone, and
his friends have suggested that he Is
letting statecraft rest too heavily on his
shoulders. But II isn't statecraft at all.
He has simply been worrying himself
trying to think how to do something
original with that baseball money. Sew
ersI times he has absent-mindedly spent
part of IL for cigars, while racking his
brain for clever idea, and IL he doesn't
think up something before long there
won't be any S. As things stand now,
to give IS to anybody offering the best
suggestion about what to do with it.
Throughout his boyhood days, George
von L. Meyer never learned to swim.
His parents read him all the harrow
ing tales In the newspapeys about little
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

Chairman OF the Democratic National
Committee. and the loving cup which
will be presented TO him in recognition
of his services as campaign manager
of President-elect Wilson in the recent
campaign. The cup will be presented TO
Mr.. McCoombs by his associates of the
campaign at the New York Demo-
cratic headquarters next Wednesday
afternoon. Norman Mack will make
the presentation speech.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02
Wilson win Meet Old Grads.

President-elect Woodrow Wilson wants
his classmates Of Princeton, ~. to as
semble here for smoker to be given
In his honor at the Chevy Chase Club
on the night of March J. Gov. Wilson
has informed the inaugural committee
that inasmuch as other plans Tor the
Inauguration" supposedly the inaugural
ball. have fallen through, he desires to
meet every Princetonian Of '7s at the
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02
BASS HORNS
By GEORGE FITCH,
Author of s.At Good Old siwash."

strument could be found and herded
back into place
Playing the bass horn does not require
a deep. vigorous intellect. pair of
versatile lips. bottomless lungs. and
broad. strong shoulders, which do
not galy easily. are more valuable. Bass
horn performers usually begin to prac-
tice during their careless youth, and be-
fore they know II the habit has them In
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02
Pauline No Democratic Cow.

Pauline Wayne, the pride of the White
House Dairy. will not be left at the
White House to act as slave TO the
Democratic conquerors after March 4.
President Taft yesterday directed that
she be returned to Senator Stephenson Of
.wisconsin, her donor. by whom she Will
be shipped back to Wisconsin. her orig
inaI home. q
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

Mrs. 'MARSHALL OHME WILSON.
New York, Feb. IA great granite
cross, thirty-five feet high. is soon TO be
placed in the graveyard of Trinity
Church. facing broadway. to remind the
hundreds of thousands of hurrying pass
ers-by in THAI busy financial section that
amidst the transitory there is an eter-
nifty. The cross will be the memorial
of Mrs. Marshall Orme Wilson to her
mother, Mrs. William Astor, who was a
member of Trinity parish all her life.
The cross will cost about $4,000 1t will
be surmounted with a figure of Christ.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

termination on the part of many Sen.
ators to make it impossible, by con-
stitutional limitation, for Roosevelt evei
to be President again This was me-
by Roosevelt's friends with an equal
determination not to bar him from
possible election. Senator Root spoke
wisely, of course, when he insisted that
such a grave question as a constitu-
tional amendment should be free from
personalities He could not, however
keep Roosevelt's name out of the dis
cussion.
In lesser degree President-elect Will
son and President Taft figured in the
discussion. The effort to shield them
from ineligibility revealed the curious
circumstances which might arise. Thus
if President Wilson should again be
nominated and elected he would oc-
cupy the White House for ten years.
II President elected for six years
should die within month after be-
ing inaugurated the Vice President
might serve five years and eleven
months. and then be elected President,
thus giving him practically twelve
year term as President. In fact, the
more the whole question was consid-
cred. the greater were the difficulties
in the way of a satisfactory solution
of the problem.
The men who framed the govern
ment were not omniscient. They made
mistakes like all other human beings.
The remarkable wisdom which they
possessed, however, was made plain
when the lawmakers of the present day
vainly. endeavored to devise IN inn
provement upon their plan. The dis
cussion in the Senate last week was
merely a repetition of the constitu-
tional debates as set down by. Elliott.
The conditions with which the present
Senate dealt in the light of experience
were all considered more than GEN.
tury and a quarter ago as possible con-
tingencies. 1t is remarkable, in fact.
how clearly our forefathers anticipated
both the advantages and the disad-
vantages of the system which they
finally adopted. Experience shows that
the framework which they erected cam
not be dismembercd without serious
detrimcnt to the stability of American
institutions.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

The principal scene in Sousa's new
opera, "Glassblowers," is laid in a glass
factory and not in rathskeller as some
Suppose.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

Why not have the Fish Commission
stock the waters of the Upper Potomac
with electric eels7
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

The District appropriations committee
is staging an old farce entitled Too
Much johnson.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02
THE POLITICAL SITUATION.

There is to be no change, for the
present at least, in our governmental
system. Our Presidents are to be
elected aS they always have been, and
they are to serve under the conditions
which have prevailed every since the
republic was founded.
Nothing could better illustrate the
innate conservatism of the American
mind than the failure of the Senate to
agree to an amendment of the Consti-
tuition. The single six-year term prop
osition had many advocates. Pages
of the Congressional Record were filled
with reprints of editorial indorse-
mcnts and there really seemed to be
a strong public sentiment in favor OF
the change. When the question came
10 be debated, however, with every
phase exposed TO critical analysis, it
was apparent that those who had as
loudly advocated the reform had not
given the matter thorough study.
The debate in the Senate upon the
proposed amendment was in itself a
liberal education. 1t covered every
phase of our governmental and political
system and was dignihcd. dispassion-
ate, and thoughtful. 1t is said-and
doubtless with truth-that if the amend
ment had been put TO a vote without
debate it would have been adopted. As
the discussion proceeded many minds
began to change. 1t was evident that
if any new arrangement was to be
made regarding the Presidential term
it would have TO be thought out with
great care and that, upon the whole,
there were few suggestions which SEEM
ed to provide better system than
the one which now obtains Conse-
quently, the proposition failed.
The principal argument against a
single siX-year term was that if an
adverse House of Representatives
should be elected two years after an
administration had come into power
as happened when a Democratic House
was chosen two years after President
Taft's election-there would ensue
four years of deadlock instead Of two
as at present The emphasis laid upon
this possible condition of affairs was
undoubtedly most effective in defeat
ing the amendment. Then it was
shown that President, even if him.
self ineligible for reelection, could not
be prevented from using his power, to
perpctuate his party in office or to Sc
cure the Presidential nomination for
some ambitious friend. As the debate
progressed it became more and more
apparent that the advantages supposed
TO be possessed by the single six-year
term proposition were rather diapha-
nous, while the disadvantages were sub
Stantial The ideal solution of the
problem would seem to be a limit of
two terms. with the election at the end
of the first four years operating as a
recall if the President should fail to
commend himself to the good judgment
of the country.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
MARY,s MENU.

MARY's MENU.
Mary had a little lamb
| With peas for Sunday dinner
Next day. I'm told. they served IL cold
And cut the slices thinner.
She had little lamb each meal;
! In vain her cries grew louder
Twas all the same TIL Friday came
And then they had fish chowder.
A Warm Winter.
Indian summer stili bobs up occasion
ally.
All Acting.
Meat is high. for one reason. because
| for help"
'I thought cowboys could be had at
| fair wages"
"Not since the moving picture people
began hiring them"
February 2 In History.
February 2. 15s4+sir walter Raleigh
dances the turkey trot with Queen
Elizabeth. h,s
February .. 15ss-Henry VIII punctures
forty dollars worth of tires and Is very
angry.
Weather Has Been Warm.
Maryland farmer Is packing store
ice around his fruit trees to keep them
from budding too early This Is not q
joke, but an agricultural item.
BE Gracious.
A favor rendered with a frown
Is very, very crude.
And gets about a nickel's worth
OF real gratitude.
just the Name.
What's a good name for fashionable
apartment house?'
kings Court. That's a toppy name"
II believe III name II Divorce Court
want to get the very smartest people
as tenants"
Quite So.
Love is a joint stock concern" mur-
INJURED the girl.
Sort OF a holding company" opined
the young man. as he gently shifted her
to his other knee.
Good Grounds.
Il wish l could operate on somebody"
said the fashionable surgeon. 81 need
the money"
Some of these women want little ex-
cuse. How about Mrs wombat?''
II have already removed her appen-
dix"
well. tell her the coat Of her stomach
Go otlt NJ order
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

In this connection Woodrow Will
sons contribution to a current issue
of a magazine deserves consideration.
In this article Mr.. Wilson asserts
that 'the government of the United
States in recent years has not been
administered by the common people of
the United States" Exactly what he
means by this declaration is not plain,
except that he seems to object that
when tariff or currency legislation is
being considered the big manufacturers
and bankers-the men with the largest
interests at stake-are consulted. Have
YOU ever heard, for example" he asks,
"of any hearing before any great COM
mittee of the Congress IN which the
people of the country as whole were
represented, except it may be by the
Congressmen themselves ~ One is in
clined to ask how the people of the
country as whole are to be repre-
sented unless it is by the Congress
men, but it is more interesting to in
quire how Mr. Wilson is to carry his
suggestion into practical effect. Will
he, when, as President, he is called
upon to decide grave problems, open
the doors of the White House and in
vitelin all of ''the common people" who
may be outside? VIII he summon the
blacksmith at Four Corners or the
patent medicine faker on the county
highway to his council table in order
that "the common people of the coun-
try as whole may help to administer
the government; or will he invite the
members of his Cabinet-only nine in
number and his personal appointees-
or few other men whose wisdom and
experience give value to their advice
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

The Senate cannot now be consid-
cred reactionary body There are
very few of the old-time conservatives
left in its membership. And yer when
Senator Bristow proposed that there
should be recall of Presidents at
the end of two years, the proposition
received only ten affirmative votes.
The proposition for direct nomina-
tion and election of a President re-
ceived more generous support, thirty
votes being cast in the affirmative 1t
was suggestion looking to the aboli-
ton of the electoral college and natu-
rally found favor. This antique ma
chinery is no longer necessary. 1t was
originally devised to restrict the power
of the people and especially as a bull
and radical man. Experience has DEM
onstrated that the people are amply
able to take care OF themselves in this
regard They have too much at stake
to jeopardize the government. The
great mass of the people of the United
States are not idle, starving, or op-
pressed. Our population is made up
in very large degree of farmers. mer-
chants, and home-owners 1t is this
substantial stratum which makes our
national foundation so firm. The fear
of the fathers OF the republic that we
would develop a French sans-culottism
has, happily, not been realized.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

1t was interesting to note how the
shadow of Roosevelt rested over the
Senate while the debate was in prog
Iess.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

When this fact comes to be. fully
realized there will be less talk about
a change from representative govern
mcnt to pure democracy.
1t is a pity that the thoughtful and
scholarly address of Ambassador Bryce
before the University of Virginia cam
not be read by every American citizen.
Mr.. Bryce took as his theme the his
tory of ancient democracies and showed
how they had all been wrecked be-
cause they failed to contain the one
principle of representative government
which has made the American republic
enduring. In the Athenian democracy
the will of a majority of the people
was paramount. In those days a YER
dict for or against a person charged
with a high crime was rendered by a
vote of the entire population This
proving unwieldly, the jury was re-
duced to 5000 and afterward to 500.
To-day we find jury of twelve suffi-
cient to represent the judgment OF the
whole community, just as experience
has proved that it is better to intrust
the making of laws to comparatively
few chosen legislators than to the un-
informed and undelibcrate voice OF an
entire population, as was the case in the
ancient democracies.
1t is a fact that much of the so-
called progressiveness of the present
day is rctrogressiveness-th VIC are
really travelling back i'll a circle to the
dangers which our fathers avoided be-
cause they had been the undoing of
older nations. Mr.. Bryce, whose won-
derful insight into the character and
scope of our governmental institutions
was manifest in his American Com
monwealth," has done the people of
this country a great service in his
latest effort.
Whether the lesson which he en-
deavors to teach will be needed is an
other question.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02
Quite So.

Love is a joint stock concern" mur-
INJURED the girl.
Sort OF a holding company" opined
the young man. as he gently shifted her
to his other knee.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

What's a good name for a fashionable
apartment house?'
kings Court. That's a toppy name"
Il believe III name IL Divorce Court
want to get the very smartest people
as tenants"
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

Throughout his boyhood days. George
Won L. Meyer never learned to swim.
His parents read him all the harrow
Ing tales In the newspapeys about little
The Washington herald., 1913-02-02

There was, on the one hand, de-
The Washington times., 1913-02-07
NOTICE TO LADIES

non-surgicai cloth bound f00-paee book
fJee. Apply by mail. SIG Colorado building.
The Washington times., 1913-02-07
Vital Records.
Births.
WHITE.

6freho. gff
WHITE.
girl
John H; and Ida c. johnson. boy.
crank b. and Francis 3 Tfpfon. girl
girl.
Mex o. and Nellie r. Lorenz. boy.
Arthur G. and Olive B. Seipp. rirI
FREDERICK A and Jessie L. Beach. boy.
Paul ID: and Annie Il. Baney, EirI
coward s j. and Marsarette c. wissman.
Martin and Sarah Mcdonald. boy.
ray n. and Dora Z. Seaton, boy.
Earl v. and Mary N. Fisher. eIfs
Sumpter ]. and Ella F. Oliver. Riri.
Edward. G. and Beatrice sasnoffe. bov,
Arcturss l. and Anna. r. Howard. girl.
COLORED.
George and Carrie Mason, boy.
Nathan and Mary Gibson. boy
frank and Hattie johnson, girl
9Sorge H and Gertrude Casey, boy.
En1ah H. and Margaret J. Glenn. boy.
Cnaries' H and Julia p. Sayies. girl.
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PROPOSALS

SALE OF TYPEwRITING MACHINEs-wsr
: Dept. Washington D. c.. Jan. -. 1873
ceived here until p- M, Feb. IS 13is- for
purchase OF 25 typewriting machines. singly
or as whole, consisting OF Remingtons.
Smith Premier. UnderEoods. anu Hammonds
Can be examined at Supply DIV, lI2s New
York Ave n. W.. where proposals for same
Supply Div. l.
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FOR SALE-H0U&S

This is a case in which further delay will
be dangerous. Almost all these hones have
sold. and the remaining ones are liable 10
go any day. These homes are so thorough
ly desirable and the location 80 unusually
attractive that buyers are not hard to ind.
SIS TO 65l n Street y. E.,
Adjoining the handsome grounds OF Galisu-
det College.
Six bright CHEEKY rooms. heated with a
most excellent hot-water system that gives
plenty Of heat without using much coal
Large. dry cellar. with laundry. Convenient
kitchen with high-Srade gas range. roomy
kitchen cabinet and enameled sink. Hand
some dining room with fine china cabinet.
Beautiful parlor with artistic fireplace and
gas logs Double oak floors: hardwood
; Trim; expensive gas fixtures with electric
The price OF these homes fs
q, $50
Terms. $500 cash and tes.50 a month,
including all interest.
Out OF this amount average Of $1S.N
applies on the purcbase OF the home and
represents the amount you receive for being
yohr own landlord.
See them today. Tomorrow may be too
late.
MIDDAUGH q SHANNON. INC.
Builder and Owner.
shannon q Luchs. 7i3 l4th ST.. Selling Agents.
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DEATHS

KEssER-on Thursday. r>broary ma AZ
p ni., at Garfield Hospital WILLIAM s.
oea9sed husband q IInnis a. ,Keiser.
on saturday. February q 1t 3 D. m. In
terment private. y
MukPHf-On Wednesday morning Februsry
nupP;,ys III; at Provtdence HospitaI. y. p.
Funeral from 81 Naffnfnsr Church- saf
urdzy morning - 10 q m
RnAN-oa Tuesday. Jsnuar- =. JAMES
HHhzN. Hh,N. retired major U s. NJ G.. At
xs9; CaL. con OF the late Patrick and
tn tneermens At Mare Island Cemetery. VAL
The Washington times., 1913-02-07
WORKINGMAN'S WANTS

wORKINGMEN-As in all things there's one
best place" modesty prevents, but tho
wise boys keep busy. We have about
everything a man wears. new and slightly
used: there's overcoats low s.: now be
good; one price. JUsTH'S OLD STAND.
6l9 ID. l.
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A SACRIFICE
$3.50

Here is the biggest bargain
that has been offered to home
seekers on P street within
one half square Of Dupont
Circle. The owner of this
fine 3-story brick house with
10 rooms and bath (all mod
ern) must realize on his equity
AT ONCE.
The house is wide; rooms
commodious; 4 rooms tinclud-
ing kitchen) lst floor; hot air
heat; open fire places; good
front and back yard to alley.
Owner has REDUCED THE
PRICE FROM $4,000 TO
MAKE A QUICK SALE.
1900 Trust Can Remain.
FRANK T. RAWLINGS CO.,
homes Main 10. Iss i4.s n. Y. Ave