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The Washington herald., 1913-10-12

much harder than in most offices, and
most of the machines of this class have
been in the Office nearer twenty years
than ten.
Some of these machines are costing
more in a year for lost time in make
ready and repairs than they could be
replaced for, TO say nothing of the in
convenience to the pressman and the
feeder and 1t would be economy to throw
out 75 per cent of the fat-bed presses in
the main pressroom and replace them
with new machines.
After several weeks absence Harry
B. Billings, of the spess. reported on
Tuesday. His many friends will be
pleased TO learn that his health is i'm
proved.
During the two years OF John 3. Dick
mans administration as president Of
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Red Mems S Calendar.

October ls-osage T1be. No. 6. Finh and C
Streets Northwest.
October II-Idaho Tribe. No. IS Northeast Ten
ME Twelfth and Streets Northeast.
October Is-white Eagle Tribe, No. II. Pythian
Temple Ninth Street Northwest: Osceola Tribe,
No l. TennAllytoWn. n. C.: Past Saehems' Asso-
ciation at 0sceola Tribe.
October I6-Logan Tribe. No. 8, Wisconsin Ave
uue and y Street Northwest: Sioux Tribe No. IS,
X Street. near Four-and- half Street Southwest.
October lT-SineloN Tribe, No Il. Anacostia, ID.
C.: Seneca Tribe No. IL. as Pennsylvania Avenue
Southeast great chiefs visitation
DECREE OF POCAHONTAS-
October l4-waneta Council No s. Fifth and
G Streets Northwest
October l5-white Eagle Council No. I. Fifth and
G Streets Northwest.
October IT-Idaho Council. No. l. Northeast TEN
pie Twelfth and X Streets Northeast.
Usage Tribe No. 6. held its regular
meeting last Monday with all chiefs
present. Business Of importance was
transacted and interesting talks given by
the members and visitors.
Sioux Tribe No. Is. held its regular
meeting last Thursday with all the
stunps allied. In addition to important
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The Great Sachem wishes to announc,
the change of date for great chiefs,
visitation in the following: Waneta Coun-
ell No. = from Tuesday. the 18th. 20 m.
9th. Sioux Tribe. No. Is, from Thurs
day. the eOth, to the 9th.
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seltese Tribe No. Is held its regular
meeting Thursday with the stumps filled.
BUSINESS took up most OF the evening.
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osceoia Tribe No. 10. held its regular
meeting Wednesday. with the stump,
hlled. Business Of the session was trans
acted and wamPum added to the belt.
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business, reports Of several committees
were received
Idaho Tribe No. Is, held its regular
meeting last Tuesday with all the
stumps properly filed. Business Of i'm
portance was transacted and applications
received.
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After several days sickness, Thomas
E. McCardell naker-up on the Y. night
section, returned to work on Monday.
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George johnson. jr., and John O'Neill.
of the day hand section. have been on
this weeks sick list
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Lebanon Lodge, No. :, F. A. A. NJ.
held one of the largest Publications II
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Century Lodge. No. 90, has requested
the grand chancellor to change the date
of the visitation of the Grand Lodge offi-
GERS to that lodge to December l, which
has been granted.
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Next Thursday evening Columbia Lodge.
No. 10, the largest lodge in this juris-
diction, will receive a visit from Grand
Master E. D. Thompson and his corps Of
grand officers. visit to this lodge is
always q pleasure, and il is desired by
the grand master that as many as can
will attend the coming visitation.
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Columbia typographical Union the debt
OF the Temple. incurred during the eight
hour strike, has been reduced to the ex-
tent that another year may see il COM
pletely wiped out.
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CHAPTER xxIl.-contlnued.

"McNish escaped, l presume?" |
asked the question more to relieve the
tensity of the silence which ensued.
than because of any doubt on this
point.
"McNish escaped" he echoed.
"And no one else?"
THE Eurasian cook escaped. too.
He broke out of his galley Hastily he
patched together a raft and reached
land a week later more dead than
alive"
And all the rest-those ninety-sev-
en- deludSi, tricked countrymen of
perished?"
ITO a man."
"Thon the graphic description you
have just given me, came-how? From
whom? Certainly not from the cook.
who was locked in the galley?"
Partly from the cook, yes" he an.
swered, unmoved And partly from
one to whom McNish, himself. de-
scribed his own crime"
The Vice Consul here added a word
Moreover" he said, and his accent
was in marked contrast with the mer-
chants perfect English, I'VE have cor.
roborative evidence. 1t happened that
the lorcha sank in what you call
shoal water Six months later. she
was declared a menace to shipping
Under ordinary conditions she would
have been dynamited where she was.
But because OF the tragedy. she was
raised. and examined; and the hols In
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-03-07
CHAPTER XIII.
A Tattoo Mark.

- dlIOO
Though l spoke in my ordinary tone,
the visiting Celestials gave no sign
that they heard me. l had expected
protestation. | should not have been
surprised had been forced to restrain
them-to make them prisoners, in fact,
until the arrival of the police But
neither of them either moved or spoke.
until the silence, in my nervously ex.
cited condition, becoming unbearable
to me, demanded:
by what right, Mr.. Yup, do you
make the assertion that my friend and
your enemy are one?"
With 2 supercilious arrogance of
manner that maddened me to the limit
of self-control, he made reply.
Il was coming to that, Mr.. Clyde.
when you so unfortunately lost your
temper. In stating the purpose of our
visit think l informed you that II was
two-fold. In the first place, we came
to give what you had asked for-.infor-
nation. In the second place, we came
to request something from you-as-
sistance. The motive of the threaten.
ing letters which Mr.. Cameron re-
ceived, l think l have made clear. For
sixteen years my people, the kinsfolk
of the victims of the Sable Lorcha
have searched the world for the fiend
who brought upon them a sorrow be-
yond any that you Of the Occident can
understand. To us Of the Celestial
Empire the tombs of our fathers are
very dear. McNish robbed these men
not only of life but OF decent burial"
THAT is all very WE'LL" l exclaimed
impatiently, but can't you see that
terrible mistake has been made? Why
under heaven you should fancy that In
Mr.. Cameron, a gentleman to his fin-
ger-tips. you have found this outlaw
Mcllish is incomprehensible."
Once more Yup Sing smiled his icy
smile and the Vice Consul made as IL
to speak. but thinking better OF 1t, an.
parently, maintained his stolid silence.
you were coming to that" | urged.
"The man to whom McNish boasted
of his deed was the man who identified
him They had been partners in the
Far East in the trade of smuggling
coolies The one. have no doubt,
was no better than the other; yet we
believe that our informant was neither
directly nor indirectly concerned in
the particular piece Of brutality al
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-03-07
Scarcity of Opium Felt.

Codeine, a very largely used mar.
cotic. is more than twice its normal
value, owing to the scarcity OF
opium. Carbolic acid continues to
advance in price, and it is not at all
unlikely that the cost of household
di&nfectants may be increased. The
most noteworthy of the few articles
which have declined In value is gly-
cerin. which. after a long period OF
high value. now shows signs ct com.
iA@ anwR IN nrtGA
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her bow proved the truth of what we
had heard"
In spite Of the seriously impressive
manner of my informants l was fas
from credulous. Such a crime might
have been perpetrated, but Ques-
toned that the perpetrator, for his
skins sake. II for no other reason.
would ever have admitted the deed,
much less have truthfully detailed the
manner Of its commission.
But, even admitting that there was
neither invention MOP misrepresenta-
ton in the narrative, l was now more
thar ever convinced that Robert Cam
eron had no part in 1t, and that in
placing even the slightest blame upon
him an egregious error had been com
mitted.
What you tell me-" said, at length,
us very interesting, but do not see
just how It applies to my tortured and
now missing friend"
The Vice Consul in an unguarded
moment forgot himself
You no can seer" he queried. laps
Ing for the nonce into the vernacular
Il certainly can not"
Mr.. Yup Sing INDUCED in the shadow
Of an icy smile.
Your friend, Mr.. Clyde" he said
with brief impressive pause between
each word, land Donald McNish are
one and the same man."
Up to this point had maintained
my poise. had listened with feigned
respect and denied myself the satisfac-
ton of Interruptions. But at this pre-
posterous claim, ] could contain my
self no longer. Before the slowly
spoken sentence was complete l had
sprung up, restless with impatient in
dignation. my blood throbbing in my
temples, my hands itching to throttle
an honest mans traducers.
That" l cried. hoarse with exas-
peration, us damnable lie!"
II expected retaliation was disap-
pointed. Yup Sings scanned yellow
race continued an immobile mask for
whatever emotion he may have felt,
and Chen Mok placidly consulted his
memoranda.
Robert Cameron" l went on, my
passion whetted by their indifference,
has been a gentleman of leisure and
fortune always. OF. all men In the
world he Is the last to be accused of
such crime as this. A seafaring mani
A smuggler of coolies! 1t is too pre-
posterous even for discussion. And
| want to tell you now, Mr. Yup, and
you, too. Mr.. Chen, that l shall leave
no stone unturned to bring to justice
those who are guilty of having made
this unthinkable mistake. Hitherto l
have been unable to get a clew But
what you have said tonight does away
with that difficulty. Both Of you shall
answer, now, to the authorities"
AS l spoke l edged toward an cleo
trio push-button, at the side of the
chimney-piece, and at the last word.
pressed 1t.
That Checkabeedy, following my in
structions, had remained within close
call was demonstrated by his prompt
appearance.
Telephone the police station" l
commanded, ito send two officers here
at once"
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which the general public seldom reads. -
For a score and more Of years the
writer has seen such victims, who were
like himself. fated by poverty to be out
ragged, victimized, as clinical material %
in this way. But the poor. alone, are
helpless, unless some newspaper and
Congrssmen will press the reform against
such outrage of the poor.
Hospitals, equally with vivisection
must be investigated-not their person
nels-and Federal laws made to control
hospitals Of the poor, uniformly. arrest
ing Herewith this inhuman outrage on
the poor. poverty sick victims. Hos
pitfalls personals are quite as helpless,
or nearly, as their poor victims to rem
edy this systm Of hospital teaching of
the tyro. at life-cost, often, too, of these
poor inmates so wronged.
Mrs. Waring, lecturing, aptly said
Let the light shine upon the hospitals,
as well as upon the laboratories. Let US
know the secrets OF the hospitals as well
as the secret OF the laboratories, thai
we may protect little children as wei
as animals some people say the
medical men experiment only upon the
people of the poor, whose lives are worth
nothing. Poor people love their children
as well as do the rich, and it is a we'll
known fact that some of the greatest
men and women the world hav ever known
have come, not from the ranks Of aris-
tocracy, but from the masses"
NJ. R WARD.
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THE OPEN FORUM
Farmers Not to Blame.

To the Editor: have read the accounts
in The Washington Herald concerning
the boycotting eggs by the wives of the
representatives of the people. The gen
eral impressions seem to be, among these
ladies' that, first, the farmers wives are
selfishly holding their eggs for their own
use; second, that farmers do not pro-
vide proper winter quarters and care for
their hens, and third. the cold storage
people are robbing city folk.
1 do not blame these ladies altogether
for these. heretofore stated confessions,
which evidently have been formed from
articles written by those who are I'M
informed.
Farmers are not holding back their
eggs. The hens have been melting. The
hard worked farmers wives will sell
every egg they can get when they re-
ceIve over Is cents a dozen for them.
Labor is high and he has not the capital
to. nor would it pay IL he had IL, the
prices he gets for eggs, to follow the
advice of Mr.. Prof. Agriculturist- The
cold storage has helped the farmer as
well as the folks in town. In the sum-
mer when the hens lay best, at little
expense the farmers wife gets from II
TO II cents a dozen for her eggs, where
otherwise she would get or cents. In
the winter time, when eggs are scarce,
the people can have eggs where other
wise they would have to pay a great deal
more for them, for there would not be
hear enough to go around
GUY NJ. SMITH.
Sterling Va
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THE WASHINGTON HERALD THURSDAY. DECEMBER H. 1913

having been no firing for five days, the
soldiers were in excellent spirits ana were
crowding to the commissary room TO re-
ceive their rations, when an explosion oc-
CURED in the magazine adjoining the
room.
Owing TO limited space. hair OF the
magazine was occupied by the commissary.
The building, a separate structure, at
the edge Of what had been once the pa
rade, was approached by gallery COW
cred with sandbags.
Half the garrison were crowded into
this gallery the men waiting their turn
to receive their food. The explosion was
followed by a rush Of smoke, powder
fumes, and fame down this gallery. The
men were wedged in the narrow passage,
and those nearest the source of the ex-
plosion persisted instantly, among them
being Capt. Edward ID. Frost, the quar-
termaster.
The noise of the explosion was not loud.
but 1t was followed by a crushing sound
of falling bodies. Tons of masonry and
timber, sand and debris, fell into the
space where the magazine had been. Hot
air and dense smoke filled all the pas
sages and chambers of the fort, and to
add to the horror Of the situation, all
lights in the covered ways and rooms
were extinguisheds leaving the terrified
soldiers, except those near the nre' In
complete darkness
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IN OPEN COMPETITION
By FRANCES SNAPPER

in the Manual Training High School
OF Brooklyn, N. Y. Is a school debating
team, made up of three boys and one
girl. few days ago the team of an
other high school, composed entirely OF
boys, sent II a challenge, which was
promptly accepted.
But when the second team discovered
that a girl was among the Manual de-
baters, IL as promptly withdrew its
challenge and declined to debate at all.
The girl offered to resign, but her team
was loyal. and said, All Of us, or
none" Her presence on the team she
explained by stating. that since she could
not play football or run on the track
team, she had turned TO debating with
the boys" And, as the newspaper
tells the story. she won the honor OF
membership in competition with twenty
boys.
But the strangers. whatever they
thought in their hearts, declared that
the judges might lean in her favor. and
they just would not debate with the
girl-so there!
In Chicago, quite recently. the ques-
ton was rased as to the propriety OF
admitting women to the Academy OF
Arts and Letters and the National In
stitute of Arts and Letters. and some
there were who openly protested, and
advised. feminine notables to start a
group Of their own" instead OF trying
TO mix In where men artists, of one sort
or another. were gathered.
And how strangely like the boys!
And. as the first little incident was
read. tfHk the other, the hope came
crowdins in that il may not be so very
much longer before all boys will ac-
cept, as some of them have, the fact
that there is no indignity in being
equaled, or perchance excelled. in open
debate with a girl who has won her own
place on her team. And that the only
possible hurt to their dignity comes from
refusal to stand up against anyone
whose credentials are perfectly clear.
Boys ought TO be better taught than
that. They should realize that IL It Is
not within the power OF a girl to play
a good game Of ball. why. the truth will
out and no serious team will accept her.
And IL she cannot debate, cannot reason
at all. the test will soon enough discon-
cert her, and she will be forced to leave
her boy-companions and play with her
dolls awhile longer. But IL she works
her way in quite legitimately, and stands
pretty well in open conflict with her
brothers. why not let the debate go on
and add to the gayety of schools? Be-
cause the withdrawal OF the challenge
inspires many tangled Thoughts and much
speculation.
1t is scarcely their chivalrous hearts
that bids them retire upon the advent OF
a girl, just because she is a girl and they
would not like to out-talk her. For, you
see. they win every school laurel they
possibly can and do their very best In
the struggle. SO II cannot be that.
II they count a girl too weak for their
mettle-but there's the test to settle that.
And IL, Just perhaps, they fear that the
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THE WAR DAY BY DAY
Fifty Years Ago.
Dec H. lss3A Magazine Fort SUMTER Charleston Hbor Blew Up
Killing Eleven Men and Woundng Fory-Tsees Heroic De
Tense the Famous Fortress which Had Been Beged for Nearly
Eighteen Months by the Federah.
written expressly for The Herald,

Fifty years ago, today a magazine in
Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor. blew
UP, killing eleven men and wounding
forty.
The disaster was one of several in a
heroic defense OF the famous fortress,
which had been besieged by the Federals
for nearly eighteen months. aud in two
commandments. since early July, 1865.
one lasting month and the other six
weeks, had been battered from a fine
brick-and-masonry work to heap Of
ruins. -
At the end Of the first bombardment the
officers defending the fort had voted that
st should be further held. Only, one of its
guns remained mounted, but the Confed-
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CFrom a photograph taken in 1858 by
crates believed they could hold the fort
as an infantry outpost.
This they proceeded to do. The artil-
Iery regiment that had manned it was
withdrawn, and a small infantry garri-
son was sent TO replace it. In the midst
of the debris work was begun to put the
fort into a state of defense.
When the second Federal lombard
ment began, October 26, the work of
Strengthening Sumter was going on day
and night. Throughout that lombard
ment, in which the Federals threw from
their batteries on Morris Island as many
as 1000 projectiles in a single day, the
work continued until Sumter became a
strong earthwork.
This Transformation of a fort under
severe fire was without parallel in the
history of the war.
The Federals having worn out many
valuable guns, without succeeding in
keeping the Confederate flag from fly
ing over Sumter, ceased their second
bombardment on December 6.
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It had cost the garrison in Sumter much
ceaseless vigilance and number OF livel
to keep their flag flying. They had lost
men from Federal shells almost every
day in the forty that the bombardment
lasted, and one day thirteen soldiers,
sleeping on their arms In the lower
story Of the half-wrecked barracks, were
killed by masonry dislodged by a shell
entering the building.
Oficers were frequently wounded, and
on November "a one of tthe bravest in
the garrison, Capt. F. H. Harleston, of
the First South Carolina Artillery. while
looking to Strengthening a point in the
outer wall, was struck by cannon ball
and fatally injured.
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est facts and foibles Of our, varied pro-
grom of life Thers win be no need soon
to send the children TO dancing school
to learn the latest IN the tango or the
turkey trot; so cent toy viii give them
all the needed instruction.; II VIII also
keep the most restless OF them amused
for hours: and what is more to the
purpose, they are strong enough to live
through the ordeal until even the densest
can grasp all the antics or steps. The
walters are already popularizing them
selves. and few debutantes OF the season
will glide more gracefully than this lady
on wheels. The manner in which she has
trained her partner to lead her Is above
the reproach of the most fastidious chape-
rons and might not be a bad example to
some of the dancers.
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Throughout the dreadful hammerfng
that the fort had received the garrison
lived like men in caves. They construct
ed bomb-proofs of sandbags, the sand
being brought to the fort in boats at
night. They built galleries from one part
of the debris piles to another. They
mounted a battery Of three guns on the
northeast face, commanding the channel,
and strengthened it on the outside with a
a great cobwork of logs.
They kept ceaseless watch, to guard
against surprise. Every night groups Of
soldiers slept on their guns at points
where assailants might scale the walls
while the sentinels stood at the most ex-
posed places, under the steady night fire
of the Federal guns.
The cessation of firing on December 6
had brought relief to the strained nerves
of the garrison. The men relaxed in we'll
earned rest, no longer apprehensive that
the Federals would accomplish the reduc-
ton of the fort.
On the morning OF December IL, there
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girl might win-but the boys themselves
must answer that. One can only say, II
looks a bit strange.
And the artist-folk who are men?
Some Of them are big enough to say
that sculptOrs, painters, writer's. or other
professional artists should look upon art
in a broad-minded way, and never should
descend to the pettiness of eliminating
anyone from membership I'm an associa-
ton for the furtherance Of art because,
by trick OF fate, she happened to come
into the world as a woman. For art is
art. no matter who creates IL.
OF course feminine notabIes'' can
start group Of their own. as suggested.
But art. and perhaps the protesters, may
suffer a bit In the process. Because IL is
ability that counts every time, when abil-
ity is given a chance.
There are folk who ask
But why, in all the news of the dav.
pick out these two items. more than
limiting OF antagonism. when the world
is aglow with incidents reflective of con-
tented cooperation between men and
women?
Well, II Is quite largely because, in a
very small way, for folk who read the
AoShS UlI between the
lines. they help to answer the question
hat is put rather often: Why is IL that
in philosophy. science. or art, so few
productions entitled to the first rank
have come from the minds or the hands
OF women?
Is IT strange when even today, with
all that today has to offer in the way
Of opportunities, there are still boys who
draw the line. not upon merit or clear
ness of mind. but simply upon-girls?
Some day they surely will learn better?
Or strange. when institutes and acad-
emies of arts seek to exclude, not the
inferior, the unskilled. the inartisttc.
but women. whatever the height of their
art? Some day they. too. will learn
better.
Meanwhile such items Of news are
bound to be a bit impressive, for while
1t is quite fitting that men should want
to preserve their social organizations
and their own special councils all to
themselves, with never a woman to vex
them, IL is quite another matter when
they try to be so very exclusive in a
matter of debate or a question of recog-
MIXING art.
Competition ought to be counted the
life and the light of the world And
natural disabilities will hold down the
unworthy strivers. SO why be so re-
luctant to debate with a girl or so un-
willing to share art-glory with a woman?