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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-22
MANY EDUCATED PEOPLE
PUT BELIEF-IN DREAMS
DR.. Williams Tells Local Anthropol-
ogists of Astonishing Results.
of His Investigations.

That many educated people both il
America and Europe have strong belle
in dreams was the statement made yes
terday afternoon by DR.. Tom \. Wi
liams, lecturing before the Washingto
Anthropological Society 1T the New Ma
tional Museum. DR.. Williams said in
vestigation of the matters of dreams had
revealed astonishing results
You will be surprised to find that some
of the most cultured people of this coun-
cry and Europe believe implicitly in
omens and dreams" he said. lone would
expetc to find this sort of belief only
among persons Of low culture.
For instance, many women of the sew
ehteenth century believed that if they
crossed the toe of their right foot and
repeated the Lords Prayer backward
they would be shown by dreams whether
they were to be married or remain old
maids.
another form of this superstition
among the cultured is this: Many young
women will burn nine strands Of their
hair, go to bed at midnight and sleep on
their right side in order that they might
get vision of their intended husbands"
Mental Disturbances in Dreams.
Mental disturbances may come to a
head in a dream and make a great inn
preston, which leads to peculiar con-
duct BY discovering the cause through
Interpretation the dreamer may be put
on the way to cure Of his mental abb
normalities
MANY persons have settled a diff
Guilty during a dream. which has led to
mental health. Benvenuto Cellini. while
imprisoned by the Pope. was stopped
when almost in the act of suicide by a
vision. Dreams are often the means of
painful experiences which affect the
health. A young woman became hyster-
ical after dreaming of an assassination
during her childhood. When the cause of
the hysterical spells was found the young
woman was cured of them.
Twenty-six young women from the pSy-
Geological class of Mount Vernon Sem
mary attended the lecture by special in
vitation.
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Va. 1u::16.
TEEA>J DEPARTMENT..

Office Of Comptroller of the CGrTeuCy.
Washington. u. g.. Jauu@ry -. l@'''
WHEREAS. ly satisfactory evids nee presented
I" the undersigned, il has been made 10 appear
that
federal NATIONAL RA\k OF WASH
IN,iTON.
in the CITY OF WASHINGTON. in the DIS
TRiCT of COLI MBIA. has complied with AL tn,
provisions Of the statutes OF the United states
required to le complied with before an assoria-
zion shall he authorized to commence thu bus
of banking.
Now THEREFORE, l. LAWRENCE -. NIUE
RAY. Comptroller Of the Currency. do hereby
certify That
FEDERAL NATIONAL RANK OF WASH
I\GTDN.
in the CITY OF WASHINGTON. in the DIS
TRICT "f EOiJMBIA. Is authorized 10 com
m.ncc III, business "f Iankin-. provided in
section ffiy onr hundred ana sixiy-rine OF the
Revised Stqtu-as az IA" rit III States.
N TESTIMONY WHEREOF witness Hly hand
ard seal of oficc this EIGHTEENTH DAY OF
JANUARY. 1917.
fSealb tSi.LeIt ItWKf-\tE -. MI REAN.
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PALMISTRY.

MRS. r. LUSBY, PALMTSTRY AND SYSTEM
attic card readings reference to ability.
positively ladies only. IL 80 am. to $3.50 pm.
Closed sundays. 93S New York ave. NV.
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Victor in Tennessee.

Mertie Hardin was the state winner in
Tennessee i'm competition participated
in by 3,UCO girls. The state had offered
"a prize of thoroughbred Jersey calf for
the best all-around display of canned
preserved and picked fruit and vege-
tables and the best essay on the story
of the CROP Miss Hardin won the first
individual prize. and In addition won Two
other Individual prizes a fireless cooker
and a cut glass bowl -.
The business men and the communities
all over the states where the girls CLUBS
are operating are enthusiastic over the
county and club prizes to be won, so
many of the girls are well rewarded for
their work.
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Dr.. Frank w. Mead Buried.

Funeral services for Dr. Frank w.
Mead of the United States public health
service, who died Saturday in Vineyard
Haven, Mass, We're held this afternoon at
2G27 G stree, northwest. Interment was
in Arlington. The services We're attended
by members of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion, of which DR.. Mead. who
had served as major and surgeon Of the
United States Volunteers, was member.
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Navai Gun Factory Dance.

The Naval Gun Factory Band gave a
dance last night in the ballroom of the
Washington navy yard. The ballroom
was beautifully decorated with flags of
various nations and all the principal
flags of the United States Navy. Moon
light waltzeS were a feature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-22

FIorida-SuperiOr Service Via Atlantic
Coast Line IN. Y. G. Florida Spec al
leaves $40 pm. other ltd trains daily
800 $40 pm: 10 am. Electric-lighted
Pu,lmans. 1906 New York ave. n.w.--Ad
vertisement.
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TO HEAD THE ALLIANCE
|. B. Linton Chosen at Meet
ing of Presbyterians-PIan
to Complete Fund.

Irwin b. Linton was chosen president
Of the Presbyterian Alliance at the an
nual meeting of that organization held in
the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church yesterday afternoon. His name
was suggested TO the meeting by Rev.
Dr. Wallace Radcliffe pastor of the New
York Avenue Church, and after a formal
nomination he was elected to succeed
William A. Leetch. who has held the po-
sition for some years. Mr.. Leetch felt
that he should relinquisll the place.
DIR. Daniel McFarlan, Charles Lyman
and w. Spencer Armstrong were selected
as vice presidents, and announcement was
made that the secretary and treasurer
will be selected later. These are chosen
by the board of management of the alli-
ance.
Arrangements We're made to hold the
next meeting of the organization In the
New York Avenue Church the first Tues
day in February.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-25

an old family friend. did, however, take
me out to lunch one day. evidently for
the purpose of seeing just what It was
that l wished and intended to do. l
believe he had a genuine personal lik-
ing for me. He explained that / had
done well in the Legislature, that II
was a good thing TO have made the
reform play that ] had shown that
possessed ability such as would make
me useful in the right kind of law Of
fee or business concern; but that L
must not everyday my hand; that l had
gone far enough. and that now was the
time to leave politics and identify my
self with the right kind of people, the
people who would always in the long
run control others and obtain the real
rewards which were worth having. 1
asked him IL that meant that I was to
yield to the ring in politics. He answer
ed somewhat impatiently that I was en-
tirely mistaken las in fact I was) about
there being merely a political ring, Of
the kind of which the papers were fond
of talking: that the ring" II II could
be called such-that is. the inner circle
included certain big business men. and
the politicians, lawyers, and judges who
were in alliance with and to certain
extent dependent upon them. and that
the successful man had to win his sue
cess by the backing OF the same forces,
whether in law, business, or politics.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-25

This conversation not only interested
me. but made such an impression that
always remembered II, for ii was the
first glimpse / had of that combination
between business and politics which I
was in after years so often to oppose.
In the America of that day, and espe-
cislly among the people whom T knew.
the successful business man was re-
garded by everybody as pre-eminently
the good citizen. The orthodox books on
political economy. not only in America
but in England, were written for his
especial glorification. The tangible re-
wards came to him. the admiration OF
his fellow-citizens of the respectable
type was apt to be his, and the severe
newspaper moralists who were never
tired of denouncing politicians and po-
litical methods, were wont to hold up
business methods as the ideal which
We were to strive to introduce into po-
Htical life. Herbert Croiy. in The
Promise of Americas Life" has set
forth the reasons why our individualistic
democracy-which taught that each man
was to rely exclusively on himself, was
in no way to be interfered with by 9TH
ers. and was to devote himself to his
own personal welfare-necessarily pro-
duced the type of business man who sin
cerely believed. as did the rest Of the
community that the individual who
amassed a big fortune was the man who
was the best and most typical American.
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WAS TWO FULL
DEMIJ0HNS OF LIQUOR
Los Angeles Examiner.

Los Angeles Examiner.
"oh, please do not disturb my baby.
and do not harm me, for 1 am so Ill,
pleaded Mrs Mary Lehman, when
Sergt. Amann and officers Clifford and
Hicock of the Metropolitan squad yes
terday entered a rooming-house at s47
Also Street. conducted by Mrs. Leh-
mann and her husband.
The officers were touched with pity.
Mrs. Lehman was propped up in bed
with a wet towel on her head. At the
foot Of the bed was a small, covered-up
bundle that resembled child wrapped
in quilts.
The officers approached it. Again the
woman pleaded. and again the stern
minions of the law were momentarily
touched. But they had come to search
the place for evidence that blind
pig was being conducted, 50 they ap-
preached closer to the bed. -
II cannot be arrested. l have just be-
come a mother, and you must not touch
my baby" again came in strong French
accents from the bed.
In the midst of her cries the officers
uncovered what the woman claimed to
be her precious baby" only to find two
demijohns OF liquor. wrapped in blan-
kets, and reposing at the foot Of the
bed.
Further investigation showed that bot
ties of liquor were hidden under the mat
tress, and several cases of alcoholic
goods were in various parts of the house.
The invalid her husband. and Frank
Botet, cook, all of whom are CONAN
ayers of the French rooming-house, were
placed under arrest on charges Of selling
liquor without license.
Mrs. Lehman rapidly recovered.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-25
By JAMES b. MORROW.

An idea, Unreasonable in its value, 50
il is said, has been brought into the De-
partment Of Agriculture by David
franklin Houston, the new Secretary.
Harnessed and put to work, II Will
change. prophets declare, the aspects and
elements of life among most OF the
American people.
Take a large black and white map OF
your own State; crowd it with red. pin
head dots up TO the edges Of all the
cities and towns; then imagine that every
dot is the center of an energetic and
efficient farming communicable power
house that is TO give impetus to each
human being in the neighborhood. Such,
then, is the idea in the rough.
1t is a mighty and a revolutionary
thought. Circles of activity, happiness
and prosperity-of modernity, in other
housekeeping one another up and down
and clear across the United States! Fig
ures are too feeble with which to COM
pute the results. Loneliness cannot be
set down in columns and totaled UP; moi
can the heartaches and losses Of unprofit-
able drudgery be estimated in dollars and
cents
What l had asked Secretary Houston,
is the most important agricultural ques-
ton of the day?' The adjective might
have been social" or it might have been
would have been the same
If the people OF the city do not CO.
operate with the people of the country to
make rural life worth while and eff
Gent" Secretary Houston declares, they
will have 10 leave the city and go to
farming themselves in order to obtain the
necessaries of life
Something Serious Is the Matter.
Such is the unpleasant prophesy Of a
cool. thoughtful. and highly educated
American. Secretary Houston is no yea
lot called in from the hay field to glorify
a class and TO inspire bulletins about
phosphates and swine; neither is he a
politician with his eye and his mind
localized on the agricultural vote. To the
contrary. he is a student and wise and
observing man. Political science has
been his speciality. The history of the
human race in its march out of savagery
is one of the pictures in his mind. Study
has familiariZed him with all the symp-
toms of society. The United States. he
believes. is seriously out of balance.
Back to the land" therefore, as he reads
the years ahead. may become a command
to almost every one instead of remaining
an impra cticable and UNDECIDED sugges-
tion 10 clerks and dependent women and
to PROFESSIONALISM who have mistudged
their aptitudeS.
Obviously. something must be done to
tip the country back TO a normal and
necessary equilibrium. Men in factories,
mines. and offices must have food 10 eat
and clothing to wear. Thus runs the
philosophy of Secretary Houston, who,
standing away from a nation Of money
setters has the genius to think out some
of the problems of his cOuntrymen. He
has lived in North Carolina, South Caro-
lima. Massachusetts. Missouri. And Texas.
He has been president of a college and
two large universities. He has taught
Latin. Greek. and political economy. He
has travelled the Middle West, and under
stands the people and the country. He
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feet, and partly owing to wise counsels
from one or two Of my opponents.
Accordingly I got the bill reported to
the Legislature and put on the calendar.
But here it came to dead halt I think
this was chiefly because most of the
newspapers which noticed the matter at
all treated it in such cynical spirit as
to encourage the men who wished to
blackmail. These papers reported the
introduction of the bill, and said that
all the hungry Legislators were cIamOr-
ing for their share of the pie" and they
accepted as certain the fact that there
was going TO be a division of pie"
This succeeded in frightening honest
Snen, and also in relieving the rogues:
The Washington herald., 1913-05-25
New Secretary Of Agriculture Is Thoughtful, Sane and
Highly Educated American, Who Is Trying to Keep
the Men On the Farms.

plan for her husbands Improvement must
necessarily include herself"
The Houstons have been farmers and
merchants. They were Scotch-Irish i'm
migrants and settled in PENNSYLVANIA
during the eighteenth century. Some Of
them moved to Virginia; others followed
the Scotch-Irish exodus to North Caro-
lina, where they owned plantations They
were Wings and opposed notification.
though they accepted the view of the
South, and fought in the Confederate
army.
My recollection Of North Carolina In
shadowy." Secretary Houston said. MY
father had a farm and lived very simply
After going TO South Carolina we always
resided on several hundred acres of land
at the edge of town. attended school,
worked in the fields. and cierked in my
fathers country store. I have plowed
for cotton. planted cotton, hoed cotton.
picked cotton, and ginned cotton.
Thought of Law and Medicine.
My education was begun at an old
classical academy at Darlington. The
two teachers were young university men
who distinguished themselves later in
life. They started me right and the
training they gave me was the most
useful have received 80 far. In Latin.
for instance. I completed the first and
second grammars. the first and second
prose compositions, and read Caesar.
Cicero, Horace, and Virgil and some of
Livy. had the equivalent in Greek and
went along so far as plane trigonometry
In mathematics.
II won honors at the academy and then
taught school for a while because was
undecided about a profession Among
nv mil II II l.
and geography and a boy genius in
arithmetic I can see that boy yet and
could draw his picture were I an artist
You have the book. but / haven't ex-
plains his attitude. I was young and he
was unbearable. Then I clerked n a
country drug store, having a notion that
/ should like to be a doctor 7 changed
my mind. however, and with s1sD entered
South Carolina College. In three years
i was graduated I had become inter-
ested In political science and government,
and so I imagined I heard loud call
from the legal profession. But for the
offer OF Latin and Greek tutorship 7
might have responded TO the call at once
Prof James Woodrow, an uncle of
President Wilson, advised me to finish
languages in Germany. and another ac-
quaintance invited me TO become presi-
dent of an insurance company. But law
was still in my head and after superin-
tending the public schools at Spartan
burg for three years. I entered Harvard.
/ soon found. however, that the little
money / had was 20 tied up that I
should have to win a fellowship or re-
turn to North Carolina. So I became
a student at the graduate school OF po-
litical science and gained a fellowship
valued at 500. Since leaving Harvard I
have taught in Texas and have been
president oy the State University and ~
the Agricultural and Mechanical Col
lege, and also of Washington University
in St Louis, which Institution. let me
add, now has one of the largest and best
medical schools in the country"
Copyright, 1913 By James B. Morruw.D
The Washington herald., 1913-05-25

that nowhere in the country. SEEM
ingiy, is any one interested in the
purity and efficiency Of county govern
ment. The farmer lives under a county
government. His taxes are collected by
a county officer and are spent by other
county officers. So at last. IL he Is man
Of reflection, he realizes that everything
Is being done for cities and scarcely any
thing for the country. He perceives that
we have over stimulated one part of our
population-and the smaller part by the
way-to the neglect OF the food-producing
class. He talks all these matters over
at home. And by and by he blesses his
son on the station platform and returns
to the farm alone. No. it is not hard
work which is depopuIating our rural
districts"
do you think that business men will
some day turn to agriculture as a profit
able way of investing large sums Of
money!" I asked.
Here ard there men of capital are
doing so now. I have a friend who
bought 5000 acres of land in North Car
DINA and who means to carry on farm
Ing as on organized business undertake
ing. Americans have put their money
into railroads. banks. manufacture and
mercantile establishments. Such invest
ments and activities-have become a ma
tional habit. The primary needs of man.
however. are food and clothing. Bust
ness men and farmers. too will realize
one OF these days that agriculture can
be made just as profitable as any other
human endeavor. The minds of the peo-
pie are now being turned that way. Once
convinced that good dividends can be
earned with grain. livestock, and cotton,
the American will venture into agricul-
ture with the confidence. capital, and
ability which has distinguished his ef-
forts In other directions"
Happiness for the Farmers Wife.
Where has farming reached its best
Development
Tn the United States, reply, IL we
make allowance for the newness OF our
country. Denmark, of course. has &C
complished a great deal, but there. be-
cause of a limitation of opportunity and
the narrow boundaries Of their land, the
people have centered their efforts on az
riculture and have intensively cultivated
their farms Americans. on the other
hand. have had plenty of land and their
farming. like their schooling has been
superficial. Still we are competent far
mers In many respects. and have learned
how to produce crops. II land were
sCdrcc' we CouIu easily oecorne intensive
farmers. We understand the principles
of this sort of agriculture. The problem
now Is TO keep our people on their farms.
That. in short. is the object OF our rural
organization service"
Meanwhile. what is to be done for the
overworked farmers wife, I asked.
Much. l think, that will make her life
brighter and her burden lighter. As a
farmer prospers he will have more and
more money to spend in his house and
on his land. His wife then can employ
help. She will have an opportunity I'M
der the new order of rural life 20 meet
her neighbors at the social center, be II
a hall. a church. or a library. Her iso-
lation will be over. She, too, Is to be
made reasonably happy and well OF. Any
The Washington herald., 1913-05-25

suspected of receiving money If they
voted for the bill. and the latter were
given a shield behind which to stand
until they were paid. l was wholly I'M
able to move the bill forward in the
Legislature, and finally a representative
of the railway told me that he thought
he would like to take the bill out of my
hands. that l did not seem able to get
it through, and that perhaps some
Older and more experienced" leader
could be more successful / was pretty
certain what this meant, but, of course.
l had no kind of proof. and. moreover.
! was not in a position to say that l
could promise success. Accordingly, the
bill was given into the charge of vet
The Washington herald., 1913-05-25
HAS A SPIRIT CHUM.
Denver Child and Unseen "Margie''
Play Together for Hours.

Denver (Colo) Dispatch to View York Herald.
Travellers from many States continue
to come to see Corinne Albert Mayfield.
five-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. U. Mayfield. of 1855 Josephine Street,
who communes daily with ''Margie," an
imaginary playmate of the spirit world.
"Margie," Corinne says, lives above the
clouds. Together they dress their dolls,
cut out pictures and play for hours in
childish pastimes.
'Margie," whom Corinne describes be-
ing a mere child like herself, has been
the constant playmate of the Denver girl
ever since she was one year old. at which
time she first began to lisp the strange
name.
The parents make no attempt at solv-
ing the mystery. and many students in
psychology and local scientists are puz-
zled over the case. and the remarkable
psychic powers developed by the child
at such an early age.
Hundreds of letters have poured into
the Mayfield home since the case gained
publicity and many persons have called
either out of curiosity or to connect the
spirit child with a loved one beyond
the portals of death.
One woman came this week from Los
Angeles to see Corinne and talk with her.
The Washington herald., 1913-05-25

ton from st. Louis he brought all his
mental baggage along, including his great
thought Of forming agricultural commu-
mites into units OF social and occupa-
tional activity. The thought has already
taken concrete form in the establishment
Of what Is hereafter to be known as the
rural organization service"
What is the most important agricul-
tural question of the day." Secretary
Houston repeated. Let me answer you
in my own fashion. So far. the, States
and the national government have been
giving attention to problems of produc-
ton. We have wanted to know how
staple crops might be increased. More
and better corn, cotton, wheat, and hay
on the same acreage has been the aim
of scientific agriculturists. The results
which have been accomplished in that
direction are wonderful We have learned
how to produce. Now We must learn
The Washington herald., 1913-05-25
When the Game Was Called.

Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph
Casey announced to his wife, Ellen.
that he was going to the ball game. All
day he was gone. Night came, but no
Casey to take his place at the head OF
the table Midnight and no Casey. One
O'clock o'clock-3 o'clock-no Casey.
As the O'Clock whistles began to blow
Casey stumbled up the front stairs into
the house and awakened his wife by his
efforts to negotiate the stairs.
She hoped out of bed and met her
better half in the hallway.
We'll" said Mrs. Casey. determination
written on her Amazon face.
"Sal-rite, Him. said Casey, weakly.
THE game was called on account of day.
light"
The Washington herald., 1913-05-25
Ccrnered.

Frum Judge.
Crawford congratulations. old man!
I'm going to be married again.
Crawshaw-why, thought you once
told me that you always prodtsd by your
mistakes.