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The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
wild Horses in Alberta.

The Peace River country in Western
Alberta and Eastern British Columbia
has suffered so much from the depreda-
uons of wild horses that the Alberta Min
lister OF Agriculture has urged on the Do
minion government the necessity of some
steps being taken. The Peace River
country has been one of the principal pio-
neering regions of Western Canada dur
ing the last few years. Wild horses have
made raids on the ranches OF new set
tiers. killing many OF the domestic horses
and leading away a number OF the we'll
bred domestic mares. which had been
imported at a considerable cost, and
which were one OF the principal assets of
the new settlers. According to Ottawa
statistics, these horses are supposed to
be descendants of horses abandoned dur
ing the gold rush to the Yukon territory
in 1S9T-9S. From the Bow River westward
these animals have raided the ranches
Of the settlers as far as Kamloops, and
contractors on the Grand Trunk Pacific
Railway have suffered losses of imported
animals used on the construction work
Of the road.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
RESPECT FOR WIVES.
From the Chicago Tribune.

HAulh tAo NAASaso AAAD-he-
over in Japan men are learning to re-
spect their wives. 1t is not a sudden
wave of chivalry that is bringing about
this changed attitude on the part of the
stronger sex. 1t is industry. The edu-
cational facilities which in recent years
have been extended to the women Of
the fiowery Kingdom have given rise to
the employment Of women in industry.
With the woman earning her livelihood
in the shop or factory a lordly attitude
TN the part Of the husband becomes more
and more out of place.
No doubt the rise of woman labor in
Japan will bring with it a train Of social
ills and problems, as it has brought
them everywhere else. Still it is to be
welcomed by the women Of Japan, for it
will bring TO them, as it has brought to
the women of Europe. a great many ad-
vantages. The ills and problems accom-
panying woman labor will gradually be
lessened i'm Japan as they are being less
ened elsewhere, while the advantages
that go with the economic independence
of woman will remain.
1t was the rise of woman in industry
that has paved the way for her TO So
cial and political equality in many coUn-
tries of the Old World and in many
States in our own country. II has put
an end to the feudal marriages in which
the woman was literally bartsred TO
man without regard TO her personal
preference. The steady rise of woman in
industry Is today slowly putting an end
TO the loveless marriage, the marriage
for the sake Of any kind of a home.
What industry has done and is doing to
elevate the woman OF Europe and Ameri-
CO it will do for the woman of the Orient.
The greater respect which the japanese
woman is now being shown by her hus-
band is but the fOrerunner of many more
advantages to come
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
Co-operaton and Peace.

The meeting of the international
Cooperative Congress at Glasgow has
demonstrated that the cooperative
movement in Great Britain, which fifty
years ago was ridiculed as the i'm
practicable theory of idealists, has be-
come a great business success, though
in the process it may have shed some
of its ideals. But it has provided an
avenue whereby thoughtful workmen
can get an insight into problems of
business and management and to learn
the important lessons that their mastery
is difficult.
The Glasgow meeting was of more
than usual interest because of the fact
that the delegates representing Ger
many Belgium, France, Denmark, and
Sweden in their discussions realized
the practical danger of war much more
accurately than other federations are
able to do. The men may have ex-
aggerated the role OF capitalism as a
war maker, but their suggestion to sub
stitute cooperation for the capitalist
system in various branches of industry
and trade is timely, though such a sub
stitution over the entire industrial and
commercial field would be Utopian.
The co-operators' main effort should
be educational in order to build up a
resolutely, intelligently, peace-loving
working class. The big business in
terests in Europe as we'll as in this
country have begun to realize the value
of cooperation industrially, and it is
for the men themselves to carry this
also in the field of states economy
and politics.
A leading feature at the Glasgow
was the suggestion of a Ger
man delegate on "the linking of agri-
cultural producing cooperative So
cieties with the cooperative consuming
societies of the cities" This sounds
like leaf from the minutes of an
American cooperative society and well
may have been caused by similar con-
diti6ns-"the high cost of living"
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
CUsTER'S LAST FIGHT.

Rev. T r. McGres0ry. in the New York American.
1t was thirty-seven years ago-June .,
1sI6-that Custer and his men were ami
hilated at the battle of the Little Big
Horn.
In June, 1856, conference was held at
Fort Laramie for the purpose Of getting
the Indian chiefs to cede a wagon route
to Montana. The route was refused. and
upon the Americans expressing their de-
termination to establish the road the In
dians at once began war. Fetterman's
command of eighty-one officers and men
was massacred, and thus began the hos
tilities which lasted for twelve years
In 1876 the red men refused to go upon
the reservation assigned them by treaty.
and a force of regular troops was sent
against them. Custer led the advance
with the Seventh Cavalry, some 700
strong On June 25 his scouts discovered
the : ouN encampment, ana Custer, with
his accustomed impetuosfty. determined
to attack them at once. Without waiting
for the support of Gen. Terry. who was
moving up the Big Horn to attack the red
men from the rear, Custer detached Col.
Reno from the larger part OF his force
to assail the rear of the encampment.
while he. with some 275 men, dashed
straight for the Indian center II was
like rushing into the mouth OF h."
The Indians, oUtnumberinz him ten to
one. closed about him in a constantly mar
rowing circle, and the result was Just
what might have been expected. Custer.
his two brothers, his nephew. and every
one Of his men were killed. Encircled by
the ring of fire. the Americans fought as
Americans always fight when the Occa-
sion calls for il. and many a redskin bit
the dust II was the Alamo over again
American valor and courage maintaining
themselves to the last ditch and the last
man against overwhelming odds.
It was unnecessary, that massacre Of
the Little Big Horn. The situation that
made il possible was the result Of rash
ness and foolish haste: but all the same
We honor Custer and his men for the IN
querable bravery which made the name
Of the Little Big Horn immortal in our
COuntry'S annals
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
Courts Must Decide.

The high opinion of Oliver P. New
man as a man which the people en-
tertained before he became a Commits
sioner of the District, the equally high
opinion of Mr.. Newman as an official
which the people now entertain, can
not, unfortunately for Mr.. Newman,
be weighed as evidence of his eligi-
bilitv to an office from which a tax
payer of the District is endeavoring to
remove him by process of the courts.
II is to be regretted if Mr.. New
man permits his friends TO base his
defense-for Mr.. Newman is now a
defendant-upon that opinion, which
is wholly deserved, or even upon what
some might regard as an ostensibly
impregnable prerogative of the Presl-
dent to nominate, and the Senate to
confirm as a Commissioner of the Dis
trict any person qualified by ability and
favor without regard 10 the more
technical requirements of the laws gov
erning appointments.
The judiciary now is plainly the
only tribunal before which Mr.. New
mans eligibility can be determined.
Only in the courts the legal status Of
Mr.. Newman, with regard to the quail
hcations of residence" which form the
basis of the quo warranto proceedings
against him, can be settled finally. The
courts, which are the protectors OF the
people against the executive and ju-
dicial branches of government, are
made to examine and decide such
problems as this.
Either Mr.. Newman is qualified i'm
der. the law to hold thea Commission
ership, whose duties he has 50 far dis
charged with such signal honor and
dignity, or he is not qualified at all.
If he is deficient in any statutory
qualification. the Presidents having ap-
pointed him, the Senate's having con-
firmed him, the Department of Justice
having come to his Succor, even his
own notable talents, cannot properly
keep him in his Office.
For the sake OF Mr.. Newman, whose
potential usefulness to the people OF
the District of Columbia none can
reasonably doubt, court settlement of
the controversy must be allowed.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
Belgium a "Sure Thing" Gambler.

That gambling is inherent in man
not to mention woman-is shown by
the news from Belgium. That country
has two noted health resorts, Ostend
and the Spa, which achieved a national
prominence by clever advertising and
the fact that open gambling was al
lowed. This was prohibited by the
government a decade ago, with the re-
suit that both places dropped into the
"innocuous-desuetude" class. Now Bel
gium is planning to allow S"games of
chance" Ia misleading phrase) to
again start.
In doing this rules are to be adopted
which takes away 50 per cent of the
profits of the proposed gambling clubs
for the benefit of old age pensions, to
aid in the building of cheap dwellings
and to advertise the resorts.
Such provisions ought to be sufficient
warning to every person with the least
bit of common sense that gambling in
these government protected places is
purely a species of robbery, that under
no circumstance can there be any
chance given to the one who CANDLES.
The gambling house keepers must get
huge profits to enable them to pay out
80 per cent and still make enough by
their 20 per cent to pay dividends on
their investment
Right here in the District the most
strenuous efforts have been made to
suppress gambling Of all kinds, but
such efforts have been only partly Sue
cessful, for as long as people want to
take a chance" they will find means
TO do so.
But as for Ostend and the Spa, with
their So per cent for the government
and 20 per cent to the promoters,
gamblers will not go there. But the
innocent sheep. who think it smart to
bet on the red or the black, will be
numerically feeced.
The Herald would suggest that Bel
gium subsidize these two resorts and
avoid the scandals that are bound to
ensue if the proposed plans are carried
out.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
Modern Inventions
THE PRESS AGENT
ny GEORGE FITCH,
Author of "At Good Old Siwaah."

A press agent is a pRlanthropist en-
gagged in manufacturing news to order
and giving it away free OF charge.
News is ordinarily supposed to hap
pen but the press agent doesn't sit
around waiting for things to happen.
Besides he can make better news than
can happen any day.
1t sometimes takes a year for a real
good news story in an ordinary city to
grow. But a press agent can sit down at
a typewriter with plenty of paper and
in half an hour he can produce a mob in
which eighteen people were fatally in
jured while trying to catch a glimpse Of
the new street costume Of a comic opera
star.
When two nations desire to produce
war they fool around for months with
the preliminaries. But a press agent
can plunge three countries into sangui-
nary conflict over the birthplace of. a
great tenor in forty-hve minutes by the
clock. 1t is nothing at all for him.
If necessary he could get two more na-
tons made in another ten minutes.
The press agent does all this from
kindness of heart. After he has pro-
duced his news he does not hoard it
away in a bomb proof safe. Instead he
goes to the nearest newspaper office
and offers it to the city editor free of
sll charge with a cigar and two tickets
to the performance thrown in.
Maybe the city editor has been try
ing to fill a newspaper with two obft-
uaries and a dog fight. But does he
rise and fall upon the neck of the press
agent weeping vast tears of gratitude?
Alas. no. He smokes the cigar and
when the press agent has departed he
laughs coarsely and cleans his pipe with
the story.
The press agent spends his life jog
ging the elbow of the public and calling
its attention to something which II has
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
MEAT PACKING INDUSTRY.

4 report of the United States Depart
rnent OF Agriculture shows how neces-
sary to the very life Of the nation is an
industry that for many years has right
fully been regarded as distinctive of Chi
| cago. In the sIaughtering and packing OF
meat animals Chicago leads all other
cities OF the country by a wide margin.
! its stock yards killing over one-fifth Of
all such animals slaughtered in the
United States, and over one-third OF
those killed in the ten leading meat
packing centers. The figures for Chicago
during the year 1912 were: Beef cattle.
1.66i,6l3; calves, 463, $50; sheep. 4,172,3J7;
goats, 15.2T3: hogs, 5,9945l3, the total
being l2,9lO.5O6 meat animals Of all kinds
killed.
The total number of meat animals
slaughtered in 80 establishments in 226
cities of the country was 7.62S, ,491, includ-
ing 7.245,5S5 beef cattle, 2277,95 calves,
H,97s,34 sheep. 72,s7l goats. and 33,O52,7 n
hogs. Chicago's exact proportion, there
fore. is 22.4 per cent.
Chicago slaughtered more than twice
the number of meat animals killed by its
nearest competitor, Kansas City, the
total figures for that packing center be-
ing 5,646,lS. while the figures for the
other eight important packing centers
are: South Omaha, 4,6O9, ,65J; New YorK,
2.03i.6s5; East St. Louis, 2,966. .292; South
St Joseph, Mo-. 2,67l. ii3; Boston, l,S26 Oh;
Indianapolis, 1,59S, ~; Sioux City. 1,52O 6O7;
Buffalo, 1.3S1, ,271.
There are other packing centers, some
OF which, such as Wichita, Kans., and
For: Wort, Tex. are of considerable local
Importance, and even do some shipping
beyond their immediate neighborhoods.
But for all practical purposes the ten
cities first named are the only ones OF
real Importance. They slaughter about
- per cent of all the cattle killed in
slaushter-houses, and their product en-
braces practically all the meat which
goes into interstate trade. The remaining
zlS cities practically supply only local
markets. Therefore it is plain that Chi |
cago furnishes over one-third the amount |
OF meat shipped from packing centers.
The meat-eating habits of the AmerI- |
can people are such as would stagger
most foreigners, and to a considerable |
degree explain the higher cost OF living |
in this country.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
Sealing n Letter.

From the Boston Herald.
In the days of our grandmOthers part
Of the education Of every young girl
consisted in teaching how to seal a let
ter correctly. Perhaps the dainty young
girls OF sixty years ago could not have
welded golf club or a paddle. but they
could WELD a letter seal, and they could
handle a stick of sealing wax with per-
feet form.
In spite Of the fact that not much at
tentiOn is paid today to the gentle art
Of sealing letters correctly, no one should
ever use a seal who cannot use it nicely.
Better no seal than one poorly made
one-sided, soiled with smoke, broken and
Clipped at the sides. thick here and thin
there. and altogether not worth the space
it takes on the back Of the envelope.
To begin with, have the letter to be
sealed, the seal. moistened so that IL
will not stick. and the wax all at hand.
Light a small candle. This really gives
the most satisfactory heat for melting
wax. Hold the stick Of sealing wax over.
not in the fame. II the fame comes in
contact with the wax the wax burns
and becomes discolored. On the other
hand. II the wax is held too far above
the flame it is streaked and fumed from
the smoke. So hold the wax between the
fame and the smoke from il.
When the wax is soft drop A big,
round drop of it where the seal should
be on the envelope. Slant the envelope
first in one direction and then in the
other, so that the wax hardens in 4
round, even form. Then hold the letter
evenly over the fame 10 soften the wax
Be careful not 10 scOrch the paper and
be careful. too. not to smoke it. When
the wax is soft but before it has begun
to lose shape. put the seal firmly in it
Press il down hard and leave il there
a moment. then pull It quickly out and
let the wax harden. There should be
a puffy ring Of wax all about the seal
the wax which the seal pushes up on
all sides evenly when it is brought down
on the envelope.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
A TRAMP SHIP.
Prom an Exchange.

Prom an Exchange.
4 tramp steamship is a tramp" be-
cause she wanders the world over. carry
ing the most advantageous cargOes she
can procure, and proceeding to any port
no matter how unfamiliar and remote, TO
which her manifest takes her. She is
not a tramp" because she goes about in
the tatters of poverty.
Quite the contrary is true. There are
great tramp lines, immensely wealthy
and powerful, and the ships that fly these
flags are modern in every respect,
equipped with wireless, of vast tonnage,
and most comfortably appointed in re-
spect to the officers quarters. When his
vessel lies in port the tramp captain ap-
pears TO the envious 'longshOre onlooker
to live a life of the most agreeable sort
AS a general rule, however, the captain
himself hollis his occupation in no such
high regard. 1t is seldom that he urges
his sons into his own profession; but the
sons themselves, a willful progeny, with
the wish to roam in far-Of lands upon
them, more often than not follow in
their wake, writes George Harding, in
Harper's Magazine.
Tramp captains may crafty their de-
sire for romance, it is true, but only in
limited way, after all; and their pros
pect for material prosperity is of the
for all the responsibility assumed, the
rich cargo and lives carried through
months of anxious weather. Of gales and
fogs at sea, OF lonely and fnonotonous
wastes. The wage is not much greater
than a commonplace boOkkeeper may
take ashore.
The pay of a Junior officer aboard a
tramp steamer would outrage the feel
ings of an alert office boy; the pay OF
first mate would shock a bank clerk
But once a first officer becomes a cap
tain, his pay is practically doubled. When
the happy day, after years of ambitious
service, at last arrives. his owners for
ward to him. or to his wife, II he is
trading in foreign waters, the sum of $50
a month, out OF which he is sometimes
expected to find himself in charts and
chronometers. If his owners possess no
other ship than his, the chance for ad-
vancement is extremely slight; but II ne
is in the service OF one of the great
freighting lines his prospect at the best
is that of eventually the newest ship at
a wage of 1880 a year.
The junior officer is, of course, in COM
petition with a host of others as keen
and as aspiring as himself. Fourth Of
hcers, stranded in English ports. have
been known to ship before the mast as
able-bodied seamen on voyages TO Aus
tralia or other Eastern ports, wheree
greater opportunities exist.
As for the tramp captain. his next move
in fortune is 10 the command of a mail
steamer. Having obtained this eminence
in the service of one OF the most con-
siderable transatlantic lines. he is paid
no less than 5000 a year and possibly as
much as 1900 or 5000. 1t is the ulti-
mately sought-for Job
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
New Idea for n Money Purse.

Prom the New York Sun.
A farm wagon drawn by two heavy
horses pulled up in front of the office Of
one of the leading law firms in Flushing
recently. Two men on the seat jumped
10 the sidewalk and yanked of the wagon
a big trunk. which they carried into the
building. At the entrance to the Office
they were held up by the office boy who
wanted to know where they were going
with the old trunk. After much discus
sion in broken English one of the farm
ers was admitted to the Office of q mem
Der Of the firm. He explained to the
lawyer that he had come TO buy the farm
at Auharndale which the firm controlled
"Al right replied the lawyer. With
that the farmer called to the man guard
ing the trunk in the anteroom and told
him to bring il in. He threw back the
cover of the trunk, and 10 the surprise of
the lawyer and his assistants there lay
hundreds of greenbacks of all denomina-
tons, ranging from 81 to 500 He seated
himself on a chair and counted out
$1,000 the amount asked for the farm.
After he had counted out the money
there were many more heaps remaining
in the trunk.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
Public Markets in Lo. Angeles.

u"ic NhaTkeN IN Los Angeles.
From the Los Angeles Tribune.
The continued success of the public
markets of Los Angeles is handsomely
justifying the step which was taken a
few months ago in providing means both
easy and cheap for the public to reach
the supply o table necessaries Further
more, the plan of instituting many small
markets instead Of one or two large and
imposing affairs of the kind is without
a. doubt established as the right principle
VI the numerous localities where marts
are now in operation, not one can be
called failure, and some are great sue
cesses in every sense of the word.
1t has been proved that one OF the chief
causes, If not the chief, for the mounting
scale OF prices has been the growing
number Of profits taken from the food
supply in transit from the producer &c
consumer, and that the living problem,
so far as necessaries are concerned, need
not be very serious for the poorest fam
ily If the community makes II easy for
the producer 10 carry his wares to the
housekeeper. At all the city markets
which are literally patronized the food
stuffs are cheaper and as a rule fresher
than under the old system.
The market department mas become one
of the most important in the civic econ
omy and the results thus far attained
justify the most liberal treatment looking
TO its continued development because it
promises such a benehcent service to so
great number Of people.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
ENGLAND'S NEW SUBJECTS.
Only 1,334 Foreigners NnturaIIzrd
There Last Year.

From Stray Stories
According to a report issued recently
by the British home office 1884 aliens
became naturaIized Britons during the
year 1872
OF this number. Russia supplied no
fewer than 493, but there was only one
Hungarian who decided to abandoh the
troublous land OF his birth in favor of
our more peace-loving country
On the other hand, 3S9 Germans wa
vered in their allegiance to the Kaiser,
and chose to become loyal subjects of
King George v; whilst despite the pros
pect of having to serve longer with the
colOrs in the future, only 3 Frenchmen
deserted the republic, so greatly in need
of men, and came to Britain, there to be
naturalized.
OF these new Britons. l.223 have taken
up their abode in England and Wales,
and 523 of them are living in London.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09
Cnnadn's Popular Girls.

Ten young women from Regina, Can
ada, have returned from holiday trip to
England. They were winners in a most
popular girl" competition, conducted by
a Canadian newspaper. On leaving Brit
ain, while delighted with their entertain
\ment, they could not forbear a parting
kick at their English sisters. You can
say for u.s." said the spokesman Of the
party, that the English girls ideas Of
dress are perfectly shocking. Over on
our side we have never seen anything so
indelicate. OF course, We were told that
these base fashions originate in Paris,
but we spent several days in the French
capital, and We are convinced that pneu-
monia blouses and half-length skirts Gf
they can really be called skirts) are far
more prevalent in London than in Paris.
The Canadian girl has totally different
ideas of dress. We delight in attractive
gowns, and pay particular attention to
our top skirts, but English girls are exact
opposites."
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09

there is the grassland plenty of it.
Somebody ought to get busy and take
it away,
We cannot have a :Iodel city with
grass growing in the streets.
The Washington herald., 1913-09-09

overlooked. The public is so careless
that it frequently overlooks a society
leader for months at a time until she
hires press agent TO wrest a statement
from her to the effect that she would
not care to bother with the Job Of being
a Presidents wife. The careless public
would also overlook many a beautiful