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The Washington times., 1913-02-26

Mrs. Charles Nagel, wife OF the Sec
retary of Commerce and Labor, will en-
tertain at her last at-home this after
noon from until o'clock at her resi-
rdence. in X street.
-
Mrs l.. L. Morrill, will be at home
this afternoon from 3 until 6 o'clock for
the last time this season. She will be
assisted by Mrs. Joseph Stewart. Mrs.
"A. NJ. German, Mrs. Harry S. Ridgely.
Miss Helen GrandfcId. Miss Mildred
Barnes. Miss Marguerite Brown, and
Miss Ruby Nevins.
Mrs. r Z. Roberts and her house
guest, Mrs. Claude Roberts, of Tennes-
see. will receive Informally this after
noon at 15l5 Newton street.
r.
Mrs. I. Edgar Smith, OF Irving street,
V ill rot receive Friday afternoon on ac-
count of the death. this morning, of
Richard Edmonds.
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Mrs. Gore, wife of Senator Gore of
Oklahoma, and Mrs. Oldfield, wife Of
Congressman OIdfield of Arkansas will
receive tomorrow afternoon from : until
6 o'clock at 1865 Mintwood place
The Secretary of the Treasury and
Mrs MacEeagh VIII afford a charming
rounding up of the President and his
Cabinet, with Mrs. Taft and the wives
Of the Cabinet officers on March ,,
when they will give IA luncheon in
honor Of the President and Mrs Taft.
The event will resemble an old fash
ioned Cabinet dinner when many times
season the President dined with eac'.
member of his executive family In
succession.
Eames MacVeagh. son of the Secro-
tary of the Treasury and Mrs. Mac
Veagh. will come to Washington on
March :. and will be the guest of his
parents until after inauguration, whch
he will return to Chicago.
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Cardinal Gibbons was the guest of
honor at Z; dinner last night with Judge
Ma rtin A. Knapp as host Other
guests at the dinner were Mr.. Justice
Van Devanter. Senator Foster. Senator
O'Gorman. Judge Charles b. Howry.
! Justice Anderson. Monsignor Russell.
Congressman Kendall. Alexande7
Graham Bell. Judge Maury, and d..
| Charles r. Neill.
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Nj and Mrs. Peter GOelct Gerry, OF
New York. will arrive in Washington
| today to be the guests of Mrs. Rich
ard II. Townsend. for several days.
Mrs. Linda Lee Thor1as is the CUES,
of Mrs. Townsend at her home in Mass
achusstts avenue
The Washington times., 1913-02-26

nate in having role excefiently suited
to her charms and abilities.
But the score Of THE Merry Countess
does not conhne itself to one, two. or
even three leading roles. IT gives ample
scope for acting and singing from at
least half dozen principals, while the
chorus comes in for some splendid en-
semble work in the second act. Chief
among the male voices to demand. and
The Washington times., 1913-02-26
HOME WORKERS MARKET PLACE

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Ruildine . nowb
The Washington times., 1913-02-26
NOTICE TO WOMEN

Falling kair, oily hair, dandruf. tight
scalp. etc. correctly treated by experts At
:he offices Of
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Only Women and Children Tr0atod
eIOutstandinE tickets for treetments
Hiu NOT be valid after JuAs 16s 1O1S
The Washington times., 1913-02-26
Miss Collins Voice
Heard to Advantage.

Miss Collins, besides being POSSESSED
of physical charms. which instantly en-
dear her to the eye, is the happy owner
of beautiful coloratura soprano voice
which she uses with telling effect. par
ticularly in her trio in the opening act
and in the .Czardasz" number in the
second, while its we'll rounded, melli-
flous notes are heard to splendid advan-
tage in her duet with Gabor Szabo. her
Hungarian lover-cousin. in the last act,
Must We Say Good-By.
In addition Miss Collins Is possessed
Of the ability to act which, in the role
of the Countess Rosalinda Cliquot, is
an indispensable. Considered from any
angle-dramatic. lyric. or physical-Miss
Collins is a delight and In this. her
first visit to Washington in role OF
The Washington times., 1913-02-26

Positively Greatest Production Ever
Through Fire and Smoke" Today. Vir-
ginia Theatre.
The Washington times., 1913-02-26
Julia Murdock Says Merry Countess
Reaches Perfection As Comic Opera
Strauss Tuneful Music Makes
1t, Together With Real Plot,
Most Entertaining.

IF THERE are any two dissimilar
terms relating to things dramatic
which the average person Is apt to
confuse or to use interchangeably
they arc comic opera" and musical
comedy
To any one who desires to learn the
proper use OF each term would say:
Go see The Merry Countess at the
Belasco tins week-then compare it with
any other musical production that has
been here this season; The Merry
Countess will be the comic opera the
other piece will be the musical COM
edy.'"
The current production has everything
that the very best musical comedies
possess. It has girls. It has Wonderful
to relats.1 plot, It has comedy, 1t has
dancing Of the highest order. But-and.
has music. music Of the highest order,
music from the gifted pen Of Johann
Strauss. the viennese composer, from
whose notes drip the harmony OF the
waltz. the fire Of the czardasz. and the
lifting melody of one Of the finest vocal
scores extant in the realm Of light
opera.
When Strauss wrote die Fielder
maus' several attempts we're made to
produce it In this country, but none of
them was a success. For some reason
the score was not well translated and
the piece lost much Of its fire and snap
through the forced elision Of q number
Of the spiciest lines In the Angltcized
adff;o,
The Washington times., 1913-02-26
"Merry Countess" Was
Formerly might Birds"

For years, however, the music was a
favorite with concert audiences, who
preferred the more popular school Of
composers. Last season Messrs. Shu-
bert decided that Fritzi Scheff, who was
In search Of q suitable vehicle, ought to
be able to ind one In the Austrian
opera. THE Night Birds" which playI
ed at the Beiasco last Easter, was far
from being a success, however, and the
production was temporarily withdrawn
while help was called in to revise the
book and to change the score by in
depreciation of other Strauss numbers
so that 1t would not be too heavy.
The present version of '"The Merry
Countess was the result, and those
Who saw the Inflated Scheff production
last spring would hardly recognize 1t in
its present FORM In the first place the
role of Ilka, tho maid, which was en-
larged because Of the demands Of the
tempermentai prima donna that her
role be not overshadowed by any other
in the piece, has been reduced to its
natural size, in which it is delightfully."-
handled by Miss Fritzi Won Busing. an
old Aborn Opera star, who Is enthu-
siastically greeted by those who renem-
ber her excellent work at the National
during other seasons.
The title role thus falls to the share
of Miss Jose Collins. daughter of Lot
tie Collins. of TIA -Ra- Ra-Boom-De-
Ay" fame This young lady brings to
the part all the fire and temperament
demanded by the role Of an Hungarian
princess, who follows her husband to
a ball and flirts with him from behind
tnIt rHf, OH q l,-
original idea, but one which is here
used to excellent effect.
The Washington times., 1913-02-26

advertising in this section not free spacebu rate CHARGED
wider market products
will with price quotations Address
AS Munsey Building.
The Washington times., 1913-02-26
Seen in the Shops

A MOTHER of the department
~ stores has been added 10 the
n list of those whose spring mil
linnrN ,liSnInr A.n,,h-
The Washington times., 1913-02-26

Mrs. George Peck, jr-, and her daugh-
ter, Miss Mardo Peck. have arrived in
Washington after a two months' visit
in the West. In January Miss Peck
was formally presented to society at
the home of her grandfather, former
Governor Peck of Wisconsin.
The Washington times., 1913-02-26

Mrs. George Smith, wife of Com
uTander Smith, u. 5. N, will arrive in
Washington Saturday from Philadel-
phia TO be the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
George Y. Wheeler for the Inauguration.
Edgar Lawson, of New York city. will
also be a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Wheel
er, and will arrive in Washington Sun
day morning
The Washington times., 1913-02-26

Tomorrow evening Nine. Mountford of
Jerusalem, will deliver her lecture on
The Crucifixion and Resurrection at
the First Presbyterian Church in John
Marshall plaza.
The Washington times., 1913-02-26

Eames MacVeagh. son of the Secrc-
tary of the Treasury and Mrs. Mac
Veagh. will come to Washington on
March g. and will be the guest of his
parents until after inauguration, whcl
he will return to Chicago.
The Washington times., 1913-02-26

Mr. and Mrs. George Y. Wheeler have
recalled the invitations for the dinner
which they were to have given Sat
urday evening at the Chevy Chase
club on account of the sudden death
The Washington times., 1913-02-26
LOCAL MENTION

Tomorrow Dorothy and Mary Jan
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-06
Death Of Mrs. H. E. Mccormick

Last Monday evening Mrs. 81. e.
Mccormick of this city died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Yoder, at
Ellis, after lingering illness caused
by cancer of the liver. Mrs. McCor-
mick W as among the pioneer settlers
of Trego county having arrived in
this part of Kansas at an early period
and residing here until the time of
her death. For a number of years
of Wa-Keedey. She buried her hus-
band number of years ago and with
in the past two years also buried two
daughters, Mrs. e. L. Morgan of
this city and Mrs. Brady of Salina.
She made her home with e. L. Nor
gan and was mother as we'll as grand
mother to the five children left to-
her care. She was devout member
and worker in the Methodist church,
and was a true christian as herlife OF
unSelfiSh toll and faithfulneSs to du-
ties both at home and for others will
testify. She was a good and loving
mother, kind friend and neighboF
and this community will miss her
from its midst. On Wednesday
afternoon the funeral services were
held at the M. e. church, conducted
by the pastor, G. M. Reed. The o. &c.
S. also attended to which order she be-
longed. She is survived by one
daughter, two sous and number Of
grandchildren.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-06
How to Kill Your Town

Buy from peddlers as much and as
often as possible.
Denounce your merchants because
they make profit on their goods.
Glory in the downfall of man who
has done much to build up your town.
Make your town out bad place
and stab it every chance you get.
Refuse to unite in any scheme for
the betterment of material interest
of the people.
Tell your merchant you get goods
a great deal cheaper in some other
town and charge him with extortion.
If a stranger comes to your town
tell him everything is overdone and
predict a general crash in the near
future.
Patronize outside newspapers to
the exclusion of your own and then
denounce yours for not being as large
and as cheap as the city papers.
If you are merchant don't adver-
tise in the home paper, but compel
the editor to go elsewhere for adver-
tisements, and, howl like sore head
because he does so.
Buy a rubber stamp and use it, It
may save you few dimes and make
your Ietterheads look as though you
we're doing business in one horse
town--Horton Headlight.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-06
The SiIo Idea

Perhaps the only cheering feature
about this unprecedented drouth that
has afflicted the Mississippi valley
this season is the fact that man has
learned in some measure how to nit
igate the damage that these catastro-
pheS can cause. The lessons of prev
ious years have not gone unheeded.
The thousands of silos that are scat
tered over Kansas have gone far to
rob the drouth of some of its terrors.
The dry weather and heat of 1901
taught many a lesson: most farmers
prepared against just such other
summers They built deeper and
bigger ponds: they protected them
from the evapoTating sense of the
sun with willow trees. They kept
their heads and only the com para
lively few became panic stricken
with the beginning of the rainless
period and hurried stock TO market
Disastrous shipments in the main
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-06
Farm for Retired Formers.

Prof. p. G. Holden, who has been
spreading the light in regard to alfal-
ia cultivation among the farmers of
Iowa, has discovered opportunities
now and then to sow a little philoso-
phy along with scientific truths about
forage crops and rejuvenated soils
The other day, for example, he told
an audience of Iowa farmers that the
place for them to be happy and use
full after they have made all the
money they need, IS on their farms.
"When you have grown old and rich
on the farm DON'T move to town. he
said. "a retired farmer is nuisance
in town, when he moves there simply
to die cheap He is against all inn
provements, because such things
cost money, and he wants to keep his
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-06

isn't worth more than $100 per acre.
None need to worry over what they
will do.
A people that has plowed ariditg in
to an asset that makes Wall Street
sit up nights; that has proved the
hen is mightier than the sword; that
has grown miloodles of gold dollars
out of sand that used to sprou1 only
prairie dogs and sage brush, are not
going to frown in the face of a few
advance blasts of the celestial sub
way.
What1l they do about it3
First of all they'll ask Coburn, the
man who put the CAN in Kansas to
figure out how much this hot spell
has been worth to them-youHi never
hear them pine about the damage,
for they have weathered Sockf less
Jerry and Carrie Nation-and then
they'll relieve the pressure on the
bank vaults by drawing out a
little of their reserve surplus
and set out to make next year the
biggest. crop year ever known in Kan
sas or in this country or in this
they get all this fixed up they'll be-
gin blowin' just where they left off
when the drought sort of dried them
up and the sun began to get the
best of them for hot air. They'll prove
to anyone that if the heat hadn't
granted them this hiatus they use
choicest diction in Kansas-many of
their barns and Silos would have
burst and some of their best citizens
could have found no room for their
profits.
They never yet have got discouraged
out in Kansas. They are not ac-
quainted with the word. Unlike
their neighbors in the east. they
don't have to be shown.
Kansas shows you'll
And it will be bright and happy
morning for this half-the- time fright
ened old world when enough of the
Kansas spirit has spilled over the
edge of that extraordinary state to
baptise the rest of us with the same
brands of crankiness, courage and
common sense that have made her a
mighty fortress of real lAmericanism. -
Norton News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-06
The Gossip

None can hope to hold a candle for
persistence to the Yandal who goes
peddling bits of scandal up and down
the village street; when he should be
busy hoeing in the garden patch, or
moving, on foul errands he is going,
travelling on eager feet. "Have you
heard the latest story on J. William
Hunkydory?'' asks the scandal-mon-
ger hoary, as you try to pass him by
"Have you heard what they are tell
in on Jim Rooster's sister Ellen9"
p And the weird ami wicked feIon-then
repeats some evil lie. Maybe when
this freak was younger for good tales
he had hunger, but, became a scan
pal-monger, nothing suits him but
the base; ne'er word of admiration
for a soul in all the nation, not one
of appreciation, ever tickleS from his
face. Does he ever pause to wonder
why in bitten or in thunder people
try to stand from under when his
voice he would upraise, why the peo-
pie dodge and shun him-save the
ones who come to dun him-why they
show wish to run him from the viii
lage 'twixt two days? This is true
my friends, be jabber-n you lie
about your neighbors then the wages
for your labors will be deatfless scorn
and hate; telling stories not demand
ed, doing actions underhanded. final
iy will see you landed where pariahs
Walt Mason.
DIR. N Kiddr~expects to send his
trottiRg mare to Oakley next week
and we expect her to make good Ei-
lis Headlight.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-06

taxes down Stay on your farm.
Don't buy more land, but improve
what you have. Put in system of
wa4r works. Put in lighting plant.
Sta4 on your farm and when you
finally pay the debt of Nature your
friends and neighbors will regret your
death and there will be a procession
half q mile long to follow you to your
grave But if you move to town you
wont have much of a procession and
All the neighbors will say that it is a
good thing the close fisted old codger
is out of tie way Chicago News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-06
New Forage Plant.

r. M. Tavlor, whose farm is Just
outside the city limits, has been ex-
perime ting ttffs season with new
forage plant called EeterTta, which
bids fair to eclipse even the favorite
kaffiT corn. Mr.. Taylor has about
three acres of feterita, which is SINH
lar in appearance to Katfir corn, but
in reality differs widely from it,
though belonging to the same family.
Mr.. Taylor's crop was planted Just af-
ter the last rain and has had no rain
quarter of an inch. The last rain to
which we refer fell about the sixth
day of June, so it will be acknowled-
ged that feretia is a sure enough dry
weather plant, a real drouth resister
The crop stands about four feet in
height and the seed plume is mature,
bearing-a d good quantity of kernels.
The plant tillers like wheat ana each
stalk has seed head. The seed is
white and round in shape. What has
been learned of the plant by this
season S experience would show it to
be a good grain producer. about like
Kaffir corn or perhaps even a little
more prolific, seeing there are more
heads produced from single seed
planted. The stalk is said to be equal
to Kaffir corn in the matter of fodder
Only one other field of feterita is
known to be in the county this year,
in the vicinity of Downs, and that
was planted earlier than Mr.. Taylor's
patch, so iU is better developed and
will make a fine crop of both seed
and fodder. The new forage plant
will be more extensively experiment
ed with next season, as t promises to
be a most valuable crop whether the
season happens to be vet or dry. In
Oklahoma, from where the seed was
obtained by Mr. Taylor, as sonn as
last years crop was ,matured seed
was taken from the patch and plant
ed and a second crop raised the same
season. Osborne Farmer
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-06
35TH YEAR-NUMBER 27

have been checked by warnings from
reliable sources Thus the applica-
tion of brain power as well as horse
power to the necessities of agticul-
ture is shown again to be worth
while. The siio is particularly note
worthy. Europe knew the silo as
long as 1900, but it was not until 1875
that the United States adopted it.
For the intelligent and widespread
use of the silo at the present time
the various agricultural colleges and
the United State department of agri-
culture deserve much credit.-Otta-
wa Republic.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-06
WA-KEENEY
OUT IN KANSAS.
KANSAS

The following tribute to our own
State of Kansas, written by Leigh
Mitchell Hodges, and published in
''The North America, was sent to
w. j. Bower by a friend of his in
Pennsylvania;
"Within the last two weeks good
many eastern eyes have been focused
on that grassy quadrangle which
geographers call Kansas.
A good many eastern minds have
been more or less alarmed by the
daily reports of continued and unpre-
-cedented heat and lack of rain
A good many eastern lips have
fearfuliy framed the question, What
do you suppose they'll do?'
Being fairly well acquainted with
the brand of humanity that has
made the Sunfiower State center of
progress and prosperity: having felt
the freedom of its arid stretches
which produce billions of crops and
been lost for a half a day in one of
its forests of corn, L think L may un-
dertake to answer the query.
Before doing SO, 1 wish to remark
that through no fault of mine,
failed to be born in Kansas.
What'll they do about it?
Well, if the old scorcherino in the
sky burns their corn to husks as dry
as those with which the prodigal re-
galed himself after he had wasted
his substance in the New York of
that day, they'll get together and in
vent a new breakfast food. They'll
call it Sunrise Soother, or something
equally tempting, and before long
the whole world will be one big
Oliver Twist holding out an empty
bowl and asking for more. And next
summer they will have found a way
to grow corn that produces a patent
moistener at the root and sunshade
on top. You needn't laugh at this,
for folks who have made young
Saharas more fruitful than the Gar
den of Eden and have managed to
turn the worlds ridicule into emerald
envy, can do things.
II the heat dries up ali the Loose
water in Kansas, they'll bring the
Colorado river to the sUrface-it
flows under the western END of the
state you know, and already has
been tapped in several places-and
dig an inland sea on poor plat that
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-09-06
MARKET REPORT

Kansas City Stock Yards, Septem-
Der 2, 1913. Cattle receipts here in
two days this week amount to 60oeQ
head, which eclipses the record
established first two days last week
by 200e head. The dry districts con-
tinue to ifauidate, and the distaibu-
tion as to class continues to fit the
requirments of the trade, fifty to
sixty per cent of the supply stock
cattle and feeders, the balance
for the killers. Iowa bought 2l000
cattle here last week, Missouri $500,
Illinois 7700, Kansas 5000, various
other states enough to make $4,000
head, stock cattle and feeders, which
will Continue their mission of4beef
making under more favorable condi-
tiens than exist in the dry sections.
In no instance is there any unfit
cattle being slaughtered. as the de-
mand from districts that have feed
is ample to absorb the offerings, the
existing beef shortage stimulating
Stockmen into effort to take care of
some of the thin cattle now coming
to market. Prime cattle are selling
quotation is in force here regularly,
some at that figure to-day. Killing
grades of steers below prime quality
are 10 to 20 lower for the two days,
stock cattle and feeders little lower
yesterday, steady today, cows and
heiferS and butcher grades almost
steady this week. Kansas grass steers
are selling at Sc. 25 to ST 90, stock
steers 50. 90 to $5. IS, feeders Sc so to
freely this week, prices 1a to Is lower
for tire two days, steers at rs to
$3.50, some corn feeds at S8. IS, cows
and heifers 81. 25 to Sc. 35.
Hogs are to 10 lower today and
the same remarkable condition exist
ing in the hog market for the last
three weeks continues, order buyers
paying 10 to 25 cents more than pack
ers, and taking the top hogs every
day. Purchasers for outside killers
absorb one-fourth of the supply,
which is running light but still con
siderably larger than last year at
this time. Shippers paid S8. 80 to SS. SO
for the best hogs today, packers
taking the remainder at S8. 10 to So %.
Bulk of sales here today S8. 10 to S8 35,
bulk Chicago today $7.70 to SS. Is, the
margin in favor of Kansas City being
due to strong competition from order
buyers.
Sheep and lambs are lower this
week, following strong markets for
two weeks Sheep are quarter low
er, lambs 35 to SO cents lower, Utah
lambs today s730 to ST. so, good ewes
at S4.0O to S4.25, feeding lambs at
sc. 90 to Sc. 25. Receipts $1,000 today.
J. A Rickart.
Market Correspondent.