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The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
STA SMEN-REAL AND NEAR
By FRED c. KELLY

Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo is
the only Cabinet officer
Wait a minute; let's make it more gen.
eraL Secretary McAdoo is the only man
in public life
No, that won't do, either. Secretary
McAdoo is the only human being in the
entire world who ever had a special train
operated just TO carry a small suitcase.
McAdoo had set out from New York
and journeyed down into Arizona on a
business trip.
One morning he took a train at Pres
colt, Ariz., going in the general direction
of New Orleans. but he intended to stop
at another city en- route to make an i'm
portant speech. After he had proceeded
a few miles 1t suddenly occurred to him
that something he ought to have was
missing When he left home he carried
a light overcoat on his arm and a suit
case in his hand. Now he took an inven-
tory and found only the overcoat. By an
easy process of deduction he came to
the conclusion that II was his suitcase
that was left behind. This promised to
discommode him greatly, for McAdoo has
a figure that is not easily fitted with
evening clothes and he did not wish to
make a public address just in such garb
as he could borrow from strangers.
McAdoo had to have that suitcase. AL
ready he had pushed a twenty -four-story
skyscraper to completion in seven months
and he had acquired a habit of not stop
ping for obstacles. He -purposed to have
that suitcase OF his, even IL ii necessi-
tated an entire rearrangement of all the
railroad schedules in the United States.
At the next station McAdoo telephoned
to the head of the railroad. on which
.nlro g.
train to cut across the State over another
division and overtake him. Railroad chiefs
have secret signals and passwords and
McAdoo was in on these by virtue of be-
ing the head of the McAdoo Tunnels The
special made the trip. McAdoo's suit
case was the sole passenger.
Representative James Manahan. a new
member from Minnesota, made the House
look around to see who he was the first
time he made speech-almost at his
first sentence. He was discussing, of
course, the tariff bill. Il shall not under
take to defend the BILL" he was saying;
'I am not a criminal lawyer"
The day Manahan entered college he
got into an argument with a professor
who was talking about large families
from the sociological point OF view.
Manahan sat frowning, and apparently
not agreeing with what was said, until
the professor turned and asked him IL
he didn't think the children in a COM
paratively small family had the best
chance.
Cant say that I do" replied Mama
han, being one Of twelve children my
self"
"But you certainly will agree that
family of six is large enough. won't
your asked the professor.
Not in every instance" said Manahan,
"And on what ground do you take
that position"
Because" answered Manahan. earn
estly. "if our family had been limited to
six I would have been left out"
And the professor conceded that any
that left Manahan out Of
the picture would have been unwise. un-
scientific, and unsound.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
THE HORSESHOE FOR LUCK.

From Harper's Weekly.
1t is not particularly difficult to guess
why lovers of horses came to adopt the
horseshoe as a talisman against mis-
fortune Horses were held TO be es-
pecially susceptible TO the Vaccinations
of witches. II precautions were not
taken these mischievous creatures
would ride the horses at dead OF night
over the hills, and when the owner
came 10 the stables in the morning he
would find his animals in lather and
utterly exhausted. A horseshoe placed
over the stable door was believed to
ward on such evil
There is no superstition more deeply
ingrained in all classes of society than
that which pertains TO the horseshoe.
As an emblem of good fortune II holds
pride of place. Nelson did not disdain
to nail a horseshoe to the mast OF the
Victory. In the early part of the
nineteenth century the horseshoe was
sions where IL was not displayed, while
humber folks were at great pains to
fasten II over their doors.
In Greece and Rome horses were
not shod. The ancients were content
with wrapping fiber cloth round the
feet of their horses in cold weather, or
when IL was necessary 10 pass through
miry districts. Instead OF devising
they turned their attention
to hardening the hoofs of their mounts.
Nero. however, who ever strove to out
distance his contemporaries, caused his
horses to be shod with silver. but no
nails were driven into the hoofs. The
practice of shoeing horses by driving
nails into the hoofs was introduced
into England by William the Conqueror
but for centuries the practice did not
gain much headway.
The Indians. who had no superior as
horsemen. never thought OF shoeing
their mounts in any way, and yet they
were capable of performing remark
able journeys over the most difficult
Even at the present day in
Japan the modern horseshoe finds a
strong competitor in the old-fashioned
sandals made of straw. which are
fastened 10 the horses hoofs very much
as they might be to a mans feet.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
Even Grape Juice Is a Factor.

1t will be surprising to many people
to know that grape juice has been a
helpful factor to the administration,
and yet such is the case.
We do not always get the proper
perspective in Washington. We are
apt TO view public sentiment through
our own atmosphere, which is not en-
tirely free from distortion. We fond
y imagine that the great mass of the
people are giving attention to grave
and serious problems of administra-
ton. The fact is that it is the ap-
parently trivial and simple thing which
most affects public sentiment. Con-
gressmen who are keeping in touch
with their constituencies, and espe-
cially those members who represent
rural communities, are unanimous in
the expression that Mr.. Bryan's stand
for temperance has greatly strength
cned the administration. The Danish,
ment of wine and the substitution of
a harmless beverage was thing which
did not require extraordinary intelli-
gence to understand 1t was a fact
intimately connected with the home
and thus struck a universal chord.
Little things have more than once
affected the course of history. 1t may
seem absurd in city to regard grape
juice as a political factor, but out in
the country there is different point
of view.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
Tramp's Unusual Reau..t.

'Tramps that / have met have asked
me to buy nearly everything for them
from a drink to a ticket to Europe
said a gray-haired man. but not until
this morning was / asked to buy a book
The literary beggar stood at my elbow
outside a secondhand book store. He
was Pretty ragged and pretty dirty but
he had mind above dirt and rags. On
the table before us lay The Crime of
Sylvestre Bonnard. in French.
oh, Anatole France" said my tramp,
with kind Of gasp. Buy II for me.
mister: won't you?''
Il was not in a mood for conferring
favors. I shook my head. Ny tramp
picked up the book. They were a good
match. one as ragged and soiled as the
other. He read a passage
oh, the dear old innocent he
chuckIed. Buy ii for me. mister, won't
you? Only 10 cents
II did not know Sylvestre Bonnard,
and I did not know French. but l did
know that that mans particular need
on earth just then was the book. and
bought it."
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

fortunate enough to receive considera-
ton may not be in submissive mood.
There is rocky road yet to be. tray-
eled, therefore, before the tariff bill
reaches the President After that will
come currency legislation, regarding
which nearly every Democrat has a
different view. The President un-
doubtedly will demand unanimous sup
port for the measure which bears his
stamp of approval and may be power
full enough to succeed. At the same
time, many Democrats are wondering
what influences are behind this in
sistence upon new banking laws, and
are viewing the agitation with some
suspicion. The story OF currency leg
islation yet remains to be written.
The gravest problem before the ad-
ministration is the production of the
cost of living. This is yet to be ac-
complished. The Democratic party is
pledged to bring about this result, and
if it can be successful without reduc-
ing wages or lessening production, it
will achieve tremendous popularity. 1t
is no exaggeration TO say that the
Democratic leaders view this phase of
the situation with some anxiety. The
best that they can do is to hope for
success.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
A Real Leader of His Party.

The most apparent fact of the three
months administration is that Presi-
dent Wilson is the real leader of his
party.
At the present time, and without
making any prediction as to what may
happen in the future, the President has
the Democratic majority in Congress
under complete control No one has
the temerity TO question his authority.
The main features of the tariff bill
were in accord with his suggestion or
direction This is especially true of
free sugar and free wool Before he
entered the White House the Demo-
cratic majority in Congress was will
ing TO admit that a minimum of pro-
lection might be given to the wool
grower and everybody remembers the
Underwood-Bryan feud in the House,
when the slight duty was accorded.
President Wilson demanded free wool
and the duty disappeared.
1t has been the same way with
sugar. The Democratic leaders in the
House have insisted in the past that
the tax on sugar was the least bur-
densome and the most easily collected
of all inposts. Only a few months
ago the Democratic members of the
Senate Finance Committee declared in
an official report their opposition to
the removal of the sugar duty. To-
day they have turned a complete
somersault. President Wilson, and no
one else, has brought about this re-
markable change. He insists that there
ought to be free importation of sugar,
and only the two Louisiana Senators
are against him. There has been no
more striking example in many years
Of a Presidents mastery control of
his party than in the complete subor-
dination of Congress to Mr.. Wilson's
views. Nor can the effect of this upon
the public mind be underestimated.
The tradition of centuries that the
King can do no wrong is not wholly
eradicated from our republican souls.
The people like a master 1t pleases
them to know that in the White House
there is President who has a posi-
tive purpose, and who proposes to
carry his desires into effect. When,
therefore, a President impresses his
personality upon the soft clay of pend !
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
An Opportunity for Some Republican.

The opportunity presents itself for
some aggressive Republican leader, but
no one seems inclined to take ad-
vantage of it
If some Republican Senator, with
aggressiveness and political sagacity
should array himself in open and per-
sistent hostility to the administration,
he could instantly focus upon himself
the attention of the entire country. The
President, with all his many excellent
qualities, is not invulnerable, neither
is he sacred. The people of this coun-
try love a fighter. Any man in the
Senate, on the Republican side, who
would undertake the task of empha-
sizing every mistake of the admins
tration, of exposing every inconsist-
ency, of combating every Democratic
movement might easily become the
leader of his party and lay the foun-
dation for his own nomination to the
Presidency. Conditions such as now
are existent do not every day arise.
There is not in the Republican party
today any one man who stands out
pre-eminently as leader. No one has
lifted aloft standard around which
the still loyal rank and file can gather
If some one will boldly step out from
the level of commonplace upon which
the Republican membership of the
Senate now stands, the question of
who shall be the next Republican
nominee for President might easily be
solved
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
Probably Her Honeybce.

From Judge.
Clara's sister (at boarding SCHOOL,
Must be an insect Clara married instead
Of man.
Girl chum-How so?
Clara's sister-why. in her letter to
me, written right after the honeymoon,
she says she got stung.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

If the Culebra Cut has any more sliding
to do it had better do it now. They are
going turn the water into the canal
In a few weeks
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

THE fellow who loses mustn't sdueal,"
says Col. Roosevelt. DO you remember
the few days Immediately following the
Chicago convention of last June?
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
Following Orders.

From JVdSr.
At eleven o'clock her father put his
head within the door Come. young
man. light out"' he said.
The words were pleasant enough. but
the young man knew that they must be
obeyed.
So he reached up and turned out the
light.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

II the new Mrs. De Wolf Hopper should
leave her spouse without getting a d.
vorce would you call her a grass Hopper?
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
INCANDESCENT LAMP
By GEORGE FITCH,
Author of "At Good old siwash."

their glories in the skies in 1s-candle-
power letters.
II the incandescent light had been
doing business in 1871 there would
have been no lantern in the OIeary
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

What a perfectly glorious Fourth of
July celebration We could have IL some
body would just provide the money,
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

ing legislation, which universally af-
fects public welfare, the people look
on and applaud.
The leadership of the President is,
therefore, unquestioned. 1t is doubt
full whether any Democrat in Congress
really desires to run counter to the
Presidents wishes, but even should
this be the case it is also doubtful
whether there is any Democrat in the
Senate who is cast in the same mold
as the late Arthur Pue German, for
instance, whose verbal castigation Of
President Cleveland upon the floor OF
the Senate is still remembered. The
fact is that the Democrats have been
so long without victorious leader,
and the present experience is SO graft
flying that they are disposed to COM
plete submission in order that party
harmony may be complete.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

Another serial story coming. The gov
ernment has started a suit against the
cereal trust.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

Better not express your opinion as to
what Congress should do. or you may
be accused of being a lobbyist.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

Boston chiropodist has been arrested
for bigamy. He put his foot in it when
he married the second time.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

Chicago has a school to teach men
how to sweep. 1t is enough to make
angels weep.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

Officially it is a lobby hunt, and not
a game of blind mans bun, that Is going
on up at the Capitol
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

Louisiana Democrats seem to think the
tail has an inherent right to wag the
dog.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

The leaders Of the striking miners in
West Virginia seem to be in a hole.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

What would we do IL a Jap millionaire
should challenge us to a yacht race?
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
The Modern Method.

From Judge.
Maud-It's a paradox. isn't II?
Edith-What?
Maud-Thst the woman of position
dances like a climber.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

We don't suppose anybody has tried
Craze juice in making a Welsh rabbit.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

From Judge.
4 bride remains a bride by hook or
crook!
But what's a bride without her picture
took?
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
In After Years.

ANY changes?' asked Rip Van Wrinkle.
Merely as a natural sequence of
things. you know. They are sim tinker
ing with the tariff. and Shamrock XIV
is about to try for the cup"
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

barn"
barn in Chicago on a certain windy oc-
tober night. and the O'Lesry COW
would merely have uncoupled hei
backbone while kicking at the elusive
bulb, instead of igniting the city with
one well-directed blow.
Copyright. 1918. b. George Mathew Adaua)
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
A au-~r Boston Girl.

Don't you adore Ibsen?" demanded
the Chicago girl.
Yes" faltered the Boston damsel. II
don't always get him. though"
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
No More Homes.

what have you done with the Home
Hints in your magazine?
Had to abandon them In favor OF a
suffragette department"
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
OF Little Moment.

The poets all Of June brides shout.
And give them booms.
You seldom hear a word about
The grooms.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
Hard Luck.

Broke, Ell? What became of your
Seeing London scheme? Those touring
cars work everywhere else"
Couldn't get any business for three
months"
Are Londoners that slow in taking
up a new thingT"
You don't understand. We struck a
long run of foggy days"
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15
Not Like Real Life.

II like novels"
WHY"
Although the plot may thicken. the
heroine always remains beautifully thin"
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

There is a mysterious box of documents
intrusted to the narrator and delivered
by her, some time after the tragedy, to
an equally mysterious stranger. who
knows the password, and who reveals
himself by moonlight as the Archduke
John of Tuscany-"Johann Orth"-who,
is conveniently out Of the way for the
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

SUNDAY, JUNE Is. 1913.
The Washington herald., 1913-06-15

He calls her his treasure"
Mere hyperbole."
Not in this case She is engaged Z
an impoverished count"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-11-06


ings. There used to be the apple cut
tings, the bean stringings, the sugar
maiiings. There used to be the spell.
ing bees, the literary societies, the de-
bates. There are not so many OF any
of these to-day. In many communities
nearly all of these have been entirely
abandoned Nothing has taken their
places. AS a result there is no way
for either old or young to amuse them
selves. And people must have some
kind OF amusement. There is nothing
tC bring the community together for
general good time. AS a second result,
many of our boys and girls, and not a
few of our older people go to the cit.
les where they can congregate on the
streets, go TO the movies. he circus,
and other forms of city entertainment.
The abandoned farms are left to ten.
ants. The farmers who stay ON their
farms must do their planting, cUltivat-
ing and harvesting themselves. ca else
hire labor.
The use of the one-room country
school as a meeting place for the
whole community has lately beer EN-
phasized by ex-President Theodore
Roosevelt and President Woodrow Will
son. School people everywhere are
trying to bring the people together at
small centers for intellectual, recrea.
tional, spiritual and social benefits.
In line with this general program
Of rural life improvement the State
Superintendent, the Hon. M. p. Shaw.
key, is strenuously urging rural tasch.
ers throughout West Virginia to as
sumo leadership in organizing their re-
spective communities into better So
cial life. 1t is earnestly hoped. AID ex.
pected. that there will be community
meetings at least once in two weeks
in every rural school house IN the
state. These meetings may De spell
ing matches, debates, literary socis-
ties, the singing school, and school
programs OF various kinds. Il more
convenient, some of these meetings
may be held at some of the country
homes. In any case the plan Is TO get
parents. children and teacher together.
These meetings may be intellectual in
their nature. They may be and some
of them should be, entertain; ing. They
should be such as all can c2joy.
y Now, what should the parents and
citizens do towards the success of this
big undertaking? Should they con.
clude before anything is done that this
is all foolishness? Many viii do so.
Should they say, Children go to
school to study books? May will so
say. Or, will they join the teacher
and their neighbors in mGElng the
most of these community meetings,
thus making their neighborhood bet
ter place to live and furnishing what
the children enjoy. You may not en-
10Y some of these meetings so much
yourself. but your presence will en-
courage the children. The school will
mean more to them. Country life will
be more attractive to them. The
neighborhood will be better place for
all who live there. Fewer boys and
girls will want to leave the farm.
L. ]. HANIFAN,
state Supervisor of Rural Schools.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-11-06

For any pain, burn, scald or bruise.
apply DR.. Thomas Electric Oil-the
household remedy. Two sizes, &c and
SOC at all drug stores.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-11-06
,, rrisonburg Daily News
LIVES SAVED BY TELEPHONE.
One Man Drank Poison, and Another
Severed Four Arteries.

Within the last several days two lives
have been saved over the telephone.
Rev. w. Lentz, OF Orders, Breth-
rem minister, took poison by mistake tor
his medicine. No physician being here,
his family got instruction from a distant
physician. Antidotes were administered
and his life was saved.
William MIonlch, in Pendleton county
tried to cut bullet from the breach OF a
gun. The knife slipped and severed four
arteries in his wrist. He was in danger
of bleeding to death. DR.. Meyers, at
Oak Flat, six miles away, gave inStruc-
tions over the phone. Another life was
saved. Mr.. Mfonich is 76 years old.
So daily are valuable lives preserved
and saved by the use of. the Jefferson
County Telephone.
Is your wife's life valuable to you +?
Do you want to preserve your children's
lives2 Is your own life valuable to your
self or family2
DO you want to make paying invest
ment? Install a Jefferson County Tele-
phone. 1t is MONEY maker. Ask
Wall, who sits in his country home and
talks to Chicago. Install a Jefferson
County Telephone. Pay $500 per an
mum. Meet me at the end of the year
and say, "Getzendanner, that phone did
not pay me, take it out, give me your
check for $500" will do it. mean
this, every word OF it. Phone, write or
wire. "DelayS are dangerous. Long
distance connections with the world.
H. c. GETZENDANNER,
General Manager.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1913-11-06
THE "SOCl |
CENTER" IDEA
Rural Boys and Girs Should
Have Entertainment and
Social intercourse
SCHOOLS TAKE ACTIVE PART
Rural Teachers Urged To Hold Com
munity Meetings at Regular
Intervals.

What becomes of the country boys
and girls? Do they leave the farms
and go to the cities? If so, is there
any good reason why so many OF them
should do so? Do they all succeed
who 20 TO the cities? Are those who
stay in the country satisfied to stay
there? Do they lead happy, useful
lives in the cities?
These questions may seem unneces-
sary to ask. They may even seem
foolish questions. But they are ques'
tions that must be answered by some
definite means of making life in the
country richer, happier, more remu-
nerative.
Who shall answer them through
deeds done in serving humanity, espe-
cially rural humanity? Our national
government through the Department
OF Agriculture has done a great deal.
1t Is making larger plans with view
to doing much more. Our state through
the College of Agriculture and the Tx
pertinent Station has done much. II
also is preparing to do still greater
things. But in order to meet effect
lively the problem of making the coun.
try better place to live, there must
be more done by the people themselves
in their respective neighborhoods. It
is generally agreed that there Is less
opportunity for the people to get to-
gether and have general good time
than there used to be. There used to
be the husking bees, the barn raisings.
the threshing days. even the log roll