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The Washington herald., 1913-02-04
Deneen and Blease.

No doubt the retiring Governor of
the great State of Illinois has been
good Executive The newspapers agree
in saying that Mr.. Deneen leaves an
enviable record behind him of reforms
attempted and inaugurated, and we be-
lieve that his efforts were concentrated
upon the betterment of social and
economic conditions.
But any fair-minded reader will agree
with us that Mr.. Deneen's last official
act will go a great ways toward reduc-
ing, or perhaps eliminating, the good
opinion OF many citizens of Illinois.
Powerful influence must have been
brought TO bear upon the Board of
Pardons to induce its members to in
dorse the petitions to free twenty-three
convicted murderers in one bunch, be-
sides curtailing the term of still an
other, and for retiring Governor to
approve all this.
There must be something at work
behind all this. which is a puzzle to the
uninitiated. Is it to remain a riddle?
There is something sinister in the con-
temptation of the fact that twenty-three
convicted slayers are to be let loose upon
socicty-fourteen of them are from Chi
cago-which no sophistry can remove,
no matter how well behaved these
men may have been while in States
prison, no matter how much they
seemed to have reformed. 1t is ad-
visedly that the word seemed" is used,
for men in durance are apt to profess
a good many things in order to achieve
their much coveted goal-liberty!
When we recall the cry of indigna-
ton that went up everywhere when
Gov. Blease of South Carolina insti-
tuted his wholesale jail deliveries, we
are quite anxious TO know what the
country at large will have to say about
Gov. Deneen's unexpected, unaccount-
able, and perhaps unwaranted, whole
sale generosity
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04
Why Not the Men Higher Up?

Punishment for the Sugar Trusts
frauds on the public revenue extending
into millions of dollars now finally SIM
mers down to short term in prison
and a small fine for Charles R. Heike,
secretary and treasurer of the thieving
company. His ridiculous plea of i'm
munity has only served TO postpone and
not avert the penalty.
But what a commentary on law and
justice, as affecting great corporations,
is this case; Heike, salaried employe,
goes to jail. The men of great wealth
and power, who were responsible for
the frauds and who profted from them,
never have been disturbed in the liberty
of the law they transgressed and in
the enjoyment of so much of the profits
of crime as they were not asked to
pay back.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04
A Paper Victory.

Two delusions persist in the minds
of many Canadians. One is that Amer
ican tariffs are made in spirit hostile
to the Dominion. The other is that
the United States is bankrupt of nat
ural resources and that Canada holds
the whip hand Both are wrong.
Two or three years ago the provin-
cisl government OF Quebec yielded to
the pressure OF paper manufacturers
and forbade the expectation of pulp
wood cut from Crown lands, as the
public domain in Canada is known. 1t
was urged that the pulp wood supply
of the United States had been nearly
exhausted American paper manufac-
turers purchased pulp wood in Canada
and took il to the United States for
manufacture into paper The Quebec
idea, already in effect in Ontario, was
that with the expectation of this raw
material. forbidden the American mills,
bereft of cheap raw material, would be
obliged to move to Canada where the
pulp wood would be manufactured by
Canadian labor to the enhancement OF
the Dominion's prosperity.
1t so happened that, in anticipation
of this move. the American Congress
had provided, in the Payne-Aldrich
tariff, a differential in favor of paper
manufactured from pulp wood on which
no export tax was levied or' embargo
placed. Those Canadian paper makers
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04

army quarters. Jim Mann, also of ILL.,
inois. allc.!ed that he thought he could
throw some light on the heat and light
question.
Now Madden and Mann are not par
ticularly chubby. So Madden inquired in
an aside:
VIII he offer us heat or light?"
After Mann had finished, Madden
smiled and declared:
"Twasn't either heat or light-just
gas"
Representative Frank Willis of Ohio
dotes on so-caIled comic pictures He can
sit down with the comic supplement Of
a Sunday paper and find things to laugh
at Nearly every time one sees Willis
he has clipping or two in his vest
pocket of funny pictures, and when he
gets a moment TO spare he takes these
out and looks at them. Oftentimes the
humor OF the picture Is OF the basic
sort-the kind visible TO the naked eye,
but Willis likes IL. and as he Is COM
paratively free from other vices. nobody
ever demonstrates with him. Give him
a picture of a fat man stepping on q
cat and falling down. and he'll laugh
al II for nearly an hour.
Two men found themselves in a parlor
car headed north from Toledo. shortly
before the election last fall
Said one: What do you think Of this
man Woodrow Wilson,"
Well. I'm rather inclined TO think
he's lrst-rate man." replied the other
one.
But he was a college president" sug-
fgestel the first man.
''Yes. that's true" admitted the other
passenger.
The first speaker leaned over closer
TO his unknown companion and asked in
a more or less confidential tone:
Did you ever know one OF those col
lege presidents that really amounted 10
anything
"Hum-m." grunted the other man nom
committally. Which was about all he
could do. He happened to be DR.. H.
B. Hutchins, president OF the University
OF Michigan.
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia has had
babies named after him so numerously
and for so many years that now his
mail is interspersed every day with let
ters from various other Hoke Smiths He
has his morning mail sorted into several
classes which include: Important" ,"
"Unimportant," and From Hoke
Smiths" Even though he has grown
used to ii Of late, it seems funny to
sign his Hoke Smith to a letter directed
TO Hoke Smith Jones or any of the
scores OF other Hoke Smiths that keep
writing to him.
Copyright. lop. by Fred 6. Kelly. AL rights re-
served
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04

who manufactured from pulp wood cut
from private lands were thus enabled
to get into the American market much
cheaper than those who got their wood
from Crown or public lands. The reci-
procity act made paper free unless man
ufactured from Crown land wood.
The expected rush of American
paper mills across the border did not
materializc- Finally the Quebec gov
ernment made a special regulation pro-
viding that four great Canadian paper
companies might ship unmanufactured
pulp wood to the United States. They
did not plan to do so, but the theory
was that since they had official per-
mission so to do the United States
customs authorities would be obliged
to admit their paper free of duty.
But the American authorities failed
to do this They took the position so
long as any restriction whatever was
imposed on the export of pulp wood
from Crown lands it should pay the
rate of duty prescribed in the tariff
laws. Now the dispatches from Quebec
state that the Quebec government win
permit any company to export pulp
wood. Whether this means also that
American mills may obtain pulp wood
from any lessee of Crown lands in
Quebec remains to be seen. Thus far
the Washington governments attitude
seems TO have been based on the prin-
ciple that unless the United States has
free access to the Canadian supply OF
raw material Canadian paper made
from that material shall not gain free
access to the American market. The
result of the long struggle is an in
teresting example of the effectiveness
of the protective tariff as a trade
weapon.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04
DIDN'T WANT BArHTUB
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But THE OTHER PLACES DID
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HID 1T IN THE HENNERY

Even If a heros bathtub Is not appre-
ciated in Urbana, Ohio, the Navy Depart
ment has proof that score OF other
cities are ready to give it a place OF
honor and accord it proper respect
Urbaua wanted a relic of the battle
ship Maine, which was raised from Ha-
vana Harbor last winter. Representative
Willis undertook to get a relic for the
Urbanaite. to set in their public square
and asked the Navy Department what
was the largest relic Of the Maine avail
able. He was told that the largest relic
left was the bathtub used by Admiral
(then Capt) Sigsbee, who was In COM
mand of the Maine when she was blown
up at Havana in 1895. Representative
Willis reported back to Urbana and later
informed the department that the city
would appreciate the gift and asked that
the bathtub be hurried along.
But when the action of the officials
who had accepted the offer Of a bath
tub became known in Urbana, they were
denounced for thus shaming the city.
Consequently, according to reports from
IJrbana. when the bathtub arrived the
Mayor, instead of putting 1t on a pedestal
in the public square. blushingly hid 1t in
a hennery ard notified the Navy Depart
merit it wouldn't do.
When this action became known the
department was flooded with applications
for the Sigsbee bathtub. Representative
Willis was asked by citizens of Findlay,
Ohio, to get the tub shipped down to
them, while St. Joseph, Mo-; Mount
Clemens. Mich: Grand Rapids. Mich. :;
Omaha. Nebr.. and Bedford. Mass. all
begged that they be granted the honor
of receiving the tub. 1t has been de-
cided that as Findlay. Ohio, applied first
and is near Urbana, anyhow, that the
bathtub will be sent there, but the peo-
pie of Urbana will have to pay the
freight
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04

Advertising is the voice OF business.
Some business can get along without
advertising. just as some men can make
a living although dumb. But both are
uphill Jobs.
Advertising began when the eager mer-
chant went out on the street and logged
the pedestrian by the elbow to get his
attention. This was wearisome work.
and sometimes the pedestrian hit back.
Nowadays the merchant can jog a mil
lion men by the elbow through the pub
lie print while he himself is beating a
worried golf ball out OF a sandpit.
Advertising Is a peddler who brings the
wares OF the world into the house each
day and tells you how cheap and good
they are But It is more desirable than
peddlers, because when you are tired of a
peddler you can't fold him up and put
him on the pantry shelves.
Advertising. formerly consisted of the
truth. Then imagination and eloquence
came TO the aid of the truth. and for a
while 1t looked as II they would crowd il
out entirely.
With the aid OF imagination, a man
can sell cactus deserts and colored water.
automobiles and college educations,
hymn books and patent crackers, tame
lions and trained fieas. .skyscrapers and
seed potatoes, fountain pens and patents
Of nobility, chewing gum, corsets, and
blue sky.
BY advertising a man can dispose of a
mountain of sawdust at 81 per ounce,
Troy weight Without advertising he can
offer frankincense and myrrh to all
corners free of charge until the stun
spoils on his hands
Nowadays the live business man begins
oy hiring an advertising writer with the
tongue OF angels and a seductive way
IN paragraphs. Then he buys s., 900 200
worth OF advertising space. and, lastly,
he decides what to sell
Advertising makes miilionaires and
Presidents. makes great actors out of fur
coats with Indifferent filing, supplies
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04
The Nations Capital.

One swallow, says the old proverb,
does not make a summer. Because one
member of Congress proposes to intro
duce bill proposing to establish self
government in the District and abolish
the half-and-half plan, ii does not mean
that we arc going to experience rev.
olution in our local affairs.
Other members have made similar
propositions in the past and still the
District government remains as it was
planned thirty years ago. 1t has some
defects and drawbacks, of course, but
upon the whole it has been a good,
clean, and efficient government and TN
der it the District has prospered. A
comparison between old conditions and
the present system is all TO the ad-
vantage OF the latter.
1t is unfortunate that the District
should be subjected TO attack and mis-
representation. but the agitator is
abroad in the land Congress will not,
however. turn us upside down, but
will give the whole subject serious
consideration. When the record comes
to be examined it will be shown that
the organic act was wise legislation,
and that nothing is TO be gained by
returning to the unsatisfactory condi-
tions of the past
The fact is that no legislation can
divorce the Federal Capital from the
nation. There must be joint ownership
and administration between the Dis
trict people and the Federal govern
ment The police force must protect
the President, Ambassadors, and Min
listers, Senators, and Representatives,
public officials; the fire department must
hold itself in readiness to save Fed
eral property from destruction; and
the schools, the health department, and
all the other branches of the local
the same twofold fashion This fact
makes the sharing OF the burden by
the United States an equitable matter.
1t does not seem possible TO believe
that even the extremists in Congress
will propose that the District people
should afford every advantage to the
Federal government and its representa-
tives and then pay the entire cost.
To imagine that such a proposition
could obtain is to reflect upon the
sense OF fairness in the American Con-
grcss.
For seventy years, under local gov
ernment, Washington was an unkempt
and struggling village. Through the
combined contributions Of the nation
and the resident taxpayers, a burden
equally borne, it has developed into
city of which the nation is deservedly
proud. The country does not want a
check TO be given to the progress and
Identification of Washington. On the
contrary, there is everywhere a patriotic
desire 10 see it develop into the finest
capital in the world.
And this sentiment, reflected in
Congress, will protect the National
Capital against the successful accom-
pIishment of any effort to withdraw
Federal cooperation.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04
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Mark Twain's First Typewriter

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Harpers Magazine for July.
It was in 1874. during a famous trip TO
Boston with DR.. Twitchell. that Mark
Twain saw for the first time what was
then a brand-ncw invention, a type
writer: or It may have been during a
subsequent visit, a week or two later.
At all events. he had the machine and
was practicing on it December .. 1874,
for he wrote two letters on 1t that day,
one to Howells. and the other to Orion
Clemens. In the latter he says:
81 am trying to get the hang OF this
new-fangled writing machine. but am not
making a shining success OF 1t. How
ever, this is the first attempt I ever
made. and yet I perceive that I shall
soon acquire a fine facility in its use
/ saw the thing in Boston the other day,
and was greatly taken with it,
He goes on to explain the new wonder
and on the whole his first attempt is a
very creditable performance. With his
usual enthusiasm over an innovation, he
believes it is going to be a great help to
him, and prodAims its advantages.
This is the letter to Howells:
You needn't answer this; l am only
practicing to get there; another. slip-up
there: only practising to get the hang of
the thing. I notice I miss fire and get
in a good many unnecessary letters and
punctuation marks. l am simply using
you for a target to bang at. Blame my
cats. but this thing requires genius in
order to work 1t just right"
In an article written long after, he tells
how he was with Nasby when he first
saw the machine in Boston through a
window, and how they went in to see il
perform. In the same article he states
that he was the first person in the world
to apply the type machine to literature,
and that the story of Tom Sawyer was
probably the first type-copied manu-
script.
The new enthusiasm ran its course and
died. The typewriter was not perfect in
those days, as it is now, and the keys
did not always. respond readily. He de-
clared it was running his morals-that it
made him want to swear" He offered
It to Howells because, he said, HoweIls
had no morals, anyway. Howells hesi-
tated, so Clemens traded the machine to
Bliss for a side-saddle. But perhaps
Bliss also became afraid of the influence.
for in due time he brought it back
Howells. again tempted. hesitated, and
this time was lost What eventually be-
came of the. machine is not history.
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04
STA SMEN-REAL AND NEAR
By FRED c. KELLY

Representative Dies Of Texas was sit
ting on a plush lounge in the House
smoking room debating with Billy Kent,
OF California, the woman's suffrage ques-
tion. Kent is an enthusiastic suffraget
OF the first magnitude and in proof OF the
wisdom Of his equal suffrage views,
points to the fact that he himself was
reelected to Congress by the votes of
the ever discriminating women folk of
his district Even a. that, Dies insisted
strongly that, taking the question by
and large. he is strongly OF the opinion
that il is just as well to let men do all
the voting. From suffrage they branched
out and discussed even bigger questions
and Kent gave a number of his views
about the well known Constitution OF
the United States. holding that while the
document was perhaps first rate at the
time II was drawn. II is now as much
behind the times as 1911 model touring
car, and needs a score or more OF mod
ern attachments.
Well Kent, I'll concede this much"
said Dies, Il have no doubt that II I
held your views about things generally,
would be in favor OF even infant suf-
frage."
Kent received a call recently from an
eAueIlS man. q OtiS- -'4ii4S AA'N - 49,
father.
They walked up Pennsylvania Avenue
together. just at dusk After q long
pause in the conversation. the old man
said:
BILLY, there's one thing I've got half
a notion to ask you about-even though
'tain't none o. my business"
What is it," asked Kent, quickly.
"Oh, some time I'll ask you." said his
fathers old friend. Not now. though" d"
Ask me right now insisted Kent.
why waltz
I'll let 1t pass" murmured the man.
But you've excited my curiosity" said
Kent. What's on your mind. anyway"
'Oh. it's really OF little importance"
But what is it?'
Some time again, I'll ask you. knew
your father right well, you know. It's
Just a little matter l wondered about as
We came along here together"
We'll, talk freely. Ask me. and I'll
tell you"
Let's step in here" suggested the old
man. heading toward an alley.
Kent looked at him suspiciously. but
humored him to the extent OF stepping
up the alley a rod or so.
The man glanced about to make sure
they were alone. and then asked in a
low. almost inaudible tone:
why don't you get a new hat?"
The army appropriation bill was up
for consideration and Representative
Madden of illinois. had been discussing
the question of heat and light in certain
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04
British steamer Saved.

The British steamer Ying Chow, owned
by the China Navigation Company. was
brought into Manila yesterday by the
United States cruiser Cincinnati, accord
ing to dispatches received at the Navy
Department. The Ying Chow. a steamer
of LOO tons, lay helpless on the shore
about 40 miles from Manila. The Gin
cinnati spent two days looking for the
disabled vessel
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04
Arson Trust Far-reaching.

Chicago. Feb. a-Fifteen cities in the
United States were named by Assistant
States Attorney Frank Johnson as the
places in which the arson trust. with
headquarters In Chicago, operated. John
son, who has been investigating the
cases. will present the evidence ct a
special session OF the grand jury to be
held after the regular work Of that body
has been completed about the middle of
February
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04
NO. 26.

Copyright. lsee. By Harper 4 Bros. Ansrshts 70
served)
Copyright, 1913, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate,
NO. 26.
Washington turned steadily to his
private business for the winter. never
theless. as was his wont-pushed for
ward the preparation and settlement of
his western lands, and stood guard. as
bcfbre. over the soldiers grants upon
the Ohio. against official bad faith and
negligence.
The Busiest Man In Virginia.
For a year or two past there has
been scarce a moment that I could
properly call my own" he declared to
friend who solicited his promise to
act as guardian to his son. What with
my own business, my present wards.
my mothers, which is wholly in my
hands, Col Fairfax's, Col. Mercer's, and
the little assistance / have undertaken
in the management OF my brother Au-
gustine's concerns, together with the
share take in public affairs. I have
been constantly engaged in writing let
ters, settling accounts, and negotiating
one piece of business or another; by
which means I have really been de-
prived of every kind of enjoyment, and
had almost fully resolved TO engage in
no fresh matter till I had entirely
wound up the old"
Doc. Not shirk Responsibiuty.
He promised to undertake the new
charge, nevertheless. 1t was stuff of
keep his powers stretched always to a
great compass.
with the new year (1775) public af-
fairs loomed big again. and ominous.
The petitions of the Congress at
Philadelphia had been received in Eng
land almost with contempt Chatham.
indeed, with that broad and noble sa-
gacity which made him so great a
statesman. had proposed that Americas
demands should be met, to the utmost
length Of repeal and withdrawal OF
corded to the full the self-government
she demanded IN respect to taxation
and every domestic concern.
Chatham's Fervfd Warning.
1T is not canceling piece Of parch-
ment" he cried, that can win back
America" the old fire burning hot with
in him: ''you must respect her fears and
her rescntments."
The merchants. too. in fear for their
trade. urged very anxioGsly that there
snOulu De instant anu sAIlpIe GOiScSSAon'
But the Kings stubborn anger, the Par
lisnents Indifference. the ministry's in
capacity, made II impossible anything
wise or generous should be done.
Adding Insult to Injury.
Instead OF real concession there was
fresh menace. The ministry did. indeed.
offer to exempt from taxation every
colony that would promise that by its
own vote IL would make proper contribu-
ton to the expenses OF public defense
and imperial sdministration-in the hope
thereby to disengage the lukewarm mid
The Washington herald., 1913-02-04
Western Marksmen Lose.

The rifle team Of Morris High School
New York. Is in triple tie with the
teams from the high schools Of Iowa
City. Iowa, and Deering. Me-, according
to announcement Of the result OF the
fourth week of the interscholastic matches
made by the national board for the prD-
motion of rifle practice During the last
week De Witt Clinton. OF New York. de-
Neated Baltimore Polytechnic: Morris,
of New York, won from the Brookiins.
Mass: Stuyvesant. of New York. won
from Western. of Washington.