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The Washington times., 1913-05-28
The Stories of
nous Novels
By Albert Payson Te1hune
No. 26.-CRESSY; by Bret Harte.

Eo-ChESSY,
@REssY MKINsTRY
openly went on with
~ in not especially good for
seho discipline and had ten dency to
ton Ford
sested
frontier
the
Fords interference by giving him
cys request the old ranher
schoo
sloouy beautiful girl OF rough frontier
a her own class
Then she
why she had
a goodlookng
Vastly different from other man she had
md the New.
He had
9 s1Fs love Then one night after rustic ball he and cs'y
Masters who had long been " her ads Mrs McKinsty
match because Masters pioneer breed
with pride the marrying exalted
Cessy Sc
% @ a @ % heart but gave gave no sign of what she Learned
rejection stole from Fs desk the Other Womans
the theft and the letters but not
that the letters from his former
was cor
@ & win one woman and eouns another sent band of Vlantes
him single handed Old Man MKinsy stepped of the
From
the
badly
have shot hm also that
the ruin ana when proved that the wound had
thema IN he
Mona1g sSas1 mor",ns
had S" nNsteouy
pupils pIped
'Cressy Mckinstrys left She's
ddenly pail and drawn
TO zoe Masters went
And he "hoie school chorused in
"Wps, ws knowsd II al uusr. Nr--'
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
THE SHARKS AND THE STATUTE.

II the new loan shark law doesn't forbid the
devious practices by way of attempted evasion Of its
provision, that have become common in this town
then, of course those practices going to continue
and we will presently have condition even worse
in some Of its aspects, than that which prevailed be-
fore the law passed That is of the frequent
results Of passing ilconsidered, halfbaked legsla.
ton.
In the case of the loan shark act there was q
pretty general feeling that Congress had done very
fair piece of work. There is no disposition to blame
anybody in case the skillfu lawyers and loaners
manage to punch holes in it.
The municipal authorities are seriously concerned
whether they can make the law stand up. There is,
for instance, the question whether note of hand is
collateral" Common sense and accepted practice
may stand aghast, and wonder whether the lawyers
will presently prove that COW is vegetable and
the world cube but no matter. They aIlege that
Q promissory note isn't collateral and maybe they
can sustain it. Leslie M. Shaw made rabbit poultry
and the packers make fricasseed calf into potted
chicken. Who can tell? Who dares guess?
A wide-extended crusade is organizing to find out
an about the various methods Of evasion that are
being attempted Why not an, expedition law for
District litigation of this sort? What with the various
appeals and their wel-nign interminable delays,
Congress may forget all if has learned about this SUBJ
ect before it finds out what it needs to do to the law
to make il hold water.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
Here's a Book

Our Own Weather" bv Edwin C.
Martin. Published BY Harper < Bros,
OF New York and London.
Whether II rain or whether II snow.
we must have weather whether or no
so goes the sage old rhyme TO assure
that one cannot get away from climatic
conditions.
A perfectly logical conclusion can be
drawn from this statement. viz. that the
more one knows about said weather.
the more fun one can have in ones new
hat. there being no danger of getting
caught In a shower whose warnings one
has failed TO understand.
Edwin Martins book Is a simple ac-
count of how the weather comes about;
Its changes of aspect from season to
sea son; of the signs which announce its
activity. with scientific explanations
OF winds. storms. floods. cyclones.
droughts. billiards, hot waves. etc.
Written clearly. the explanations OF
elemental disturbances are as simple as
the authors naive definition Of weather
itself-when he says The weather Is
simply the airs business" and that in
the case Of the United States II 10 Q
liatinsfly in4tvsdaul NATIONAL aifi
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
GOVERNMENT employees AND THEIR
CREDIT.

This newspaper has been the friend and sup
porter Of the rank and file of Government employees
so long and uniformly that it feels no necessity of
apologizing as preliminary to disagreeing with
some of their jealous friends Protest is made against
the request of business men that the Government
take some interest in the private affairs of its en-
ployes, looking to prompt payment of their bills.
Government employees who don't pay their bills
ought to. Those who DON'T tend to bring the vast
majority who do into bad odor. Those who do pay,
therefore, would be better off if the others were
compelled to pay. 81
Other employers very frequently are compelled
to interest themselves in such matters as this with
reference to their employees. bank teller who
spends beyond the reasonable measure fixed by his
income is likely 70 be investigated very promptly.
Likewise an office cashier or bookkeeper.- Why ex-
empion for the Government employer
More than this the request of the local business
men is one approach nearer to real consideration
of the impossible salary schedule under which civil
service people work. Anything that brings nearer
revision Of that schedule, into conformity with pres
ent times and conditions, is good thing. Mr. Full
ton Gordon in mis- letter to the President has touched
the right spot and if an agitation of this kind shall
bring the President and other people in authority
to an investigation of the archaic system Of paying
Government workers, it will be an unalloyed blessing
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
COMING IN OUT OF THE RAIN.

communication from q valued subscriber asks
if The Times can discover good reason why, when
the surroundings of the Union Station are being fixed
up with statuary, gilded eagles on totem poes ef-
hgies of Columbus and the Santa Maria, Barre (Vt)
lions, fountains, trees, turf and the like it isn't pos
sbe also to get proper shelter constructed from the
front entrance, out over the street car tracks.
The Times has asked that question on sundry oc-
casions, without eciting a response that KEEP,
anybodys feet dry. 1t doesn't know. 1t gives up
The joke is on US. Can you give the answer? We
gladly bite.
Scnptural authority holsters the statement that
the rain falls on the just and the unjust We are led
to assume that those fortunates who swing up to the
station in automobiles and disembark under the monu
mental stone portco at the end of the station, pro-
vided for that purpose are neither the just nor the
unjust Where they fit into the classification is left
to conjecture.
The rain certainly falls on the folks who climb
off the street cars, or have to climb on them. The
draughts at the stations main entrance are 50 ad-
justed that they draw the moisture in with wonderful
avidity. Nobody has chance to miss it.
Why the one-half Of 1 per cent who use auto
mobiles and carriages should have portico to pro-
tect them, while the ssN per cent who are so simple
minded as not to ride in autos have protection, is
ton as old as the world Why does the man who
does the hard and disagreeable work of the world
get $l50 day, while the man with the upholstered
snap. and the rotund physique enjoys an obese in
come? If our correspondent will bethink himself,
he will recall that questions Of this character have
been asked before.
In the matter of the just and the unjust who
soak their clothes and spoil their tempers when it
fhe va fee1ino thar thew could
have portico of their own just like the people who,
though neither just nor unjust keep dry, if they
would be noisy and insistent enough about it.
Write letter to every Congressman you know
about it.
Also to the District Commissioners.
Ditto Washington Terminal Company.
Get all your friends to do same.
Our correspondent has heard some people alluded
to as not having sense enough to come in out Of
the rain" There are more Of that kind than may
be popularly supposed.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
FIGHTING THE HOOKWORM.

Work that transforms life which is almost USE
less into one possessing efficiency and the capacity
for happiness is close approach to actual life
saving That is what the Rockefeller Sanitary CON-
mission for the Eradication Of Hookworm Disease is
doing.
Its third annual report shows the far-reaching
tent of its activity. In 1910, the first year it was
carried on, $4,000 persons were treated; in 1911,
100000, and last year, 100000. The per capita cost
of treatment has been reduced from S4.70 to II
cents.
Nothing is more significant of the progress of
medical science than that the world sumbered for so
many centuries in ignorance Of the frightful and
widespread effects of this disease. If, as some of
the Rockefeller physicians say, it caused the down.
fall of Greece and Rome we many congratulate our
selves that it is not likely to cause the downfall Of
the United Ststes -
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
THE DEAR OLD CONCERT.

That edfying mid-afternoon missionary tea party
Of ancient maiden gossps, the Concert of Europe is
busy again chattering at the Balkan allies. Though
there is irrepressbe reluctance to admit that any
thing the Concert agrees possibly be desirable
yet in this the presumption in its favor is un-
usually strong
From the news dispatches it is gathered that Sir
Edward Grey, for the powers has notified the allies
that they must make peace with their defeated COM
mon enemy, Turkey, before they start the impending
war among themselves. The pausbility of this sug-
gestion commands certain respect despite its source
1t appears that Bulgaria is ready to make peace,
but Servia and Greece are hesitant The Bulgars
and Greeks are at swords points over possession of
Saoniki their armies in that region having been re-
ported, indeed as doing Some serious fighting
Turkey is down and out and wants peace; but il
the allies insist on quarreling among themselves
there is no certainty what might happen. 1t is fire.
quent experience in international affairs that after
two countries have fought it out finish, they are
likely very soon after the restoration of peace to be-
come allies. The Bulgars could do nothing more nat
ural in the present exgency, than to make their own
peace and alliance with Turkey which might easily
develop joint purpose of fighting Greece and Ser
via. Such an event would put the prim and elderly
ladies' Of the Concert in q worse predicament than
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
DOMESTIC DIALOGUES
See? (UnwraS<- ~otheS
BY ALMA WOODWARD.
PA SHOPS.

/ wear 'em. See? CUnwraS<- ~nothes
Mrs B. tshriekins)-what are @
things?
Mr.. B. Ctriumphantly)-Ties. cravats.
Things you wear around your neck and
put your scarfpin in.
Mrs. B. (shrilly)-You don't mean to
say you're going to disgrace me by
wearing things that look like that?
Mr.. B. observation-disclosures Latest.
Shrieks to heaven. But It's class-and
Gates himselfD.
Mrs, B; (oitterlyl-1 might hav.
go shopping alone. You never had any
taste. You never will have any. I've
always done all your buying. That's
Mr.. B. (interruptins firmly)-reh.
That's the reason I've always looked
like something the cat had gotten tired
Of playing with! Now I'm emancipated
and I'm going to look like q fire alarm
Mrs. B. (pointing coldly)-what are
those things? Silk shirts?
Mr.. B. texultantly)-HaI I fooled
you. l didn't have the price Of all-silk.
madras behind. all matched up-sl.15
per. Look kitosh, don't they?
Mrs B. (scornfully What are you
going to do wien you take of your
coat? SILK coming ana cotton going
oh. grand.
Mr. B. tin defense)-I don't feel the
heat much and l never take of my
coat except at home. So it'll be all
right. Here's tEe lid. (He puts IL on
at rakish ansle)
Mrs. B. with cutting sarcasm)-WeIl.
YOU ARE a sweet sight, II doesn't
suit your face at all You'll have to
have one or the other OF them re-
blocked,
Mr. Bob. Is that so, (slggles to
himsef) Well. now l KNOW that I've
made some really stunning purchases.
Mrs. B. spitefully)-What? When
I've criticised every blessed thing you've
bought,
Mr. B.. (calmly)-Just so. Little One.
That fellow around there Is wise
member. all right. I'll tell you: When
I bought the things he said to me:
Vow. you take 'erd around and show
'em TO your wife and IL she admires
them bring trem back and I'll ex-
change them gladly for you. But II
she knocks 'em, be sure you look like
the candy kid And he's been married
A couple Of times himself So now a
released soul stands before you, And
hereafter he will dress for SQUAD at
traction
Mrs. B. (damply)-You brute.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
soPHIsTIcATIoN VERSUS INFORMATION

Out in Denver the school authorities have tenta-
lively expelled from the town high schools long list
of pupils because Of their membership in sororities
and fraternities. The legislature passed law au-
thorizing such action, and the school management,
convinced that vigorous measures were needed, went
the limit of penalty.
The fraternities in the colleges have been long a
subject of real concern to educators. Time when
the country college that prohibited fraterntes was
hopelessly swamp-grass; nowadays it stands good
deal better. 1t isn't so easy to handle the problem
in colleges, but it ought to be manageable in public
schools.
The public school fraternity represents quite too
early initiation into snobbery and cannishness Dr.
ferences in worldly station already mark quite def
intely enough the line of social cleavage in this al
legged democratic country, without stalking them off
and setting up monuments to guard and promote the
caste divisions.
The fraternities at best are harmless and useless
At worst they are the beginnings Of segregation Of
sef-assuming elect from the body Of students. They
are incentive to ideness or to undesirable actvi-
ties. They make for sophistication at time when
children-we believe, in the high school stage, they
rather resent that classification nowadays-need
pretty nearly everything else. Silk stockings, slashed
Skirts cigarettes, and fraternities have proper
place in high school life Children need not be de-
prved entirely of the very real advantages of child
hood and have their infancy rushed into a headon
collision with the dancing, matinee, and sorority
stage.
The public schools need to encourage more in
formation and less sophistcaton, and to drive out
the fraternities is one step.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

CTime, 7:5 p. m. Mr.. Brown enters
laden with packages Of all sizes anc
shapes)
u II Rs. B. (accusingiy)-What made
M you SO late? where've you
/" been? What on earth are al
those parcels? Don't you know
dinners getting cold. being cooked &C
long,"
Mr.. p. Qn full explanation)-Yes.
Mrs B. dndignantly)-Answer me, Ma
thaniel, when ask you a civil ques-
ton.
Mr.. B. Calmly depositing his parcels
on piano. tables and chairs)-Now. say,
don't get so excited. You couldn't make
me mad tonight, anyway. I just bought
the first bunch Of snappy clothes I've
had since my trousseau. and I feel like
little Santa Claus to myself. Now
just wait until I get my lid OF and I'll
display the fxings.
Mrs. B. following him out into the
halD-Clothes? What clothes? Where
did you get 'em?"
Mr.. B.-Well, you know I've always
been against patronizing the larger
stores; and so tonight. just as got out
OF the subway, my eye fell on this
little fellows sign. around the corner.
He's got a nice. neat little shop. and
good things. too. So I made UP my
mind. on the spot. to 80 in there and
buy my summer outfit. And I did.
Mrs. B. (severely)-Let me see them,
Mr.. B. (nervously)-Ail right. Just let
me get my breath. won't you? But be
prepared to have your eye knocked out
they're hot stuff. all right.
Mrs. B. lin disturbing repetition)-Let
me see them,
Mr.. 3. (holding aloft a collar)-See?
The latest. Those long. pointed things.
And l got some soft ones just like 'em,
too. Nobby. Ell?
Mrs B. docking like she'd just hap
pened on persimmon)-Well. you
MUST be In your dotagei How do you
suppose those things are going to look
on your eighteen neck? Those are for
boys with 1.-THE. clean cut faces and slim
necks.
Mr.. r. (resentfully)-I never heard OF
a 1.-the face! And, anyway. I'm going to
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
What's on the Program, ia
WASHINGTON Today

The following Masonic organizations
will meet tonight: Lodses-Harmony,
No. Il. NJ NJ. school Of instruction.
ROYAL Arch Chapters-Schooi OF In
struction. Eastern Star Chapters
Naomi. No. 5: Brookland. No. II.
The following I. o. o. F. organizations
will meet tonight: Lodges-Eastern.
No. :: Harmony. No. 9: Friendship.
No y; Federal City. No. 90. Encamp-
ment-Columbian. No. l. degree.
The following X. OF P. organIzat tons
will meet tonight: Lodges-Mt. vern-
on. No. 5: Hermione. No. 12: Union,
No p: Columbia. No. sS. Pythian
Sisters-Friendship Temple. No. Q.
Amusements.
National-"Madam Butterfly" 2:l5 ana
Sis D. m.
Commbia--''The Amazons." Sis D. m
PoTs-'Merely Mary Ann" a:I5 ana
Sis p. m.
Beiasco-Motion pictures. SIS and $40
p. m.
Chase's-Talking pictures. 1 to II D. m.
Glen Echo Outdoor amussmsuta ana
moving ptetursA -
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
AS TO MISSING THE FUN.

Apropos of Colonel Roosevelt's testimony itemiz-
ing the drinks he has taken and those he has not
taken, it is common observation that he surely has
missed might lot Of fun
As TO all the other things there are to do in this
world, however, it must be admitted on second
thought that he has managed to get about as much
fun as anybody now the planet 1t is not easy to
work up feeling of commseraton for the colonel
on the score of the amusement he has overlooked
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

they were when Nicholas defed them and gave the
world pleasing imitation Of very tiny David pick:
ing pebbles with reference to a whole platoon OF
very big Goliaths The Concert has, of course, gwen
ample proofs of its own impotence; yet in this in
stance it would seem as if there possibility OF its
pushing something over, and, for once, being right
about it.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

The Inspiration Of iine new type
writer-we are breaking II in on today,
column-may enable us to make inter.
esting comment on fourthofJuly page
ants. antisun statements. editorials
from London papers. Republican reor-
sanization plans and other sandman
stories. They make wonderful ma.
chimes these days.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
GERMAN STUDENTS, rRroLEr

GERMAN STUDENTS TRrOLET.
Take care to tpist things all around,
And then you'll haoe them right.
The uerb you should put underground;
Take care to tvist things oil around.
A sentence isn't right, Tpe found,
In case the verbs In sight.
Take care to tDtst things oil around,
And then you'll have them right.
HANS
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

ITO open this package" reads the
ad of a cracker company. FIRST unwrap
the outer covering and then carefully
remove the inner lining" It's 20 nice
to have those little things explained.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

Our private statistician has figured
that the traffic. ordinance requiring We
hicles to keep TO the right while round
ing circles is worth S3HsO q year to
the taxicab companies.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
We Hope He Didn't See This.

CFrom the "HeraId')
Capt. Frank NJ. Wells, OF Texas,
globerotter evangelist
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
THIS& THAT
A BALLADE OF MopERN1rY
Whh Soss<fssses- . Lissls srtAs osAs-

A BALLADE OF MoDERN1TY.
While I've not the least design / {
To precipitate a row, II
The opinions I opine !
Might as well be pinioned now:
That although I make my bow
To the play of Rome or Llama, +
I pugnaciously avow: II
Let me have a modern drama. r.
Not the rural play for mine,
With the farmer and his plough,
And his sheep and lowing kline +
And his ever-faithful SOW. :
Take away the gentle COW;
Can the country panorama;
Choke the reubens who "allow"-<
Let me have 4 modern drama.
Sophoeles was pretty fine, r
But to him I can't kow-tow;
Winehell Smith and Charley Klein
They're the geezers who know howl
Nix on plays of "thee" and chou
Read by Alpha Beta Gamma;
I asseverate and vow: 4.
Let me have q modern drama. s
L'ENvoI. o.
Possibly I'm low of brow,
Or 1t may be that I am q
Stubborn Ounce, but anyhow,
Let me have Z modern DRAMA
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

Nor forgetting the cause Of the Cali
i"rnia trouble whats become Of II. by
the way0-The Japlanders.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
A FEW MORE.
BY CCRLEY.


The Cincinnati "Reds"-The Swap.
landers.
The Athletics-The Gaplanders.
The Yankees-The Draplanders.
The Nationals-The PerhapsIanders.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

Anne Pinchot should cheer up. Event.
ually he may get his name Into tyne
without brother Of clifford Pinchot"
laundering after It.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

BIS notion Of the absolute, auto
cratic zero in Jobs for q live. strong
man with a fondness for ball sames:
Usher at an afternoon wedding.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

Who said vocational bureau? Ism,
NJ. Baum a Topeka. Kan. undertaken!
He certainly is.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

Gopher's nominee for the Persona
Friends: Past experience"
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

DID HE WARN AGAINST MIS-.
TITLNG THE RES GEsTAE
CLUB. TOO?
From the 'Herald")
Warning lawyers against the use Of
monsrel Latin. French. and the mis-
pronunciation OF big words. Col. c. NJ.
Perkins. in an address made last night
before the Res tests Club
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

All right. Leucida, we'll bite. wha,
HAS become Of the report Of the Jones
suffpageant committee?
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

We've a growing conviction. in fact.
that It's difficult to conduct a column
properly
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

This column would not be complete,
We feel. without some mention OF the
ball team.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

Mr.. Bryan comes out for the long
white radish. thereby practically assur-
ing our '1S vote to the Dems. Though
we'd like to know his attitude on ,scram-
bled eggs before burning our bridges
behind us.
The Washington times., 1913-05-28
We Always Want a Vacation.

u. 5. X: Some day when you want
a vacation just phone me. II see.
remarked friend OF mine. that
They're paving the way to the signing
OF the Balkan-Turkish treaty" with
"hat answered stumbling
blocks?"
CHEVY CHASE
The Washington times., 1913-05-28

And keep ones friends.