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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-14

foot-rule, a dificult undertaking.
carefully made record Of the utterly
useless measurements, and at once be-
gan to write a natural history OF my
own, on the strength OF that seal. This
and subsequent natural histories were
written down in blank books In simpii-
fed spelling wholly unprecedented
and unscientiic. / had vague aspira-
lions of In some way owning and pre-
serving that seal, but they never got
beyond the purely formless stage.
think. however, / did get the seals
skull. and with two Of my cousins
promptly started what we ambittously
called the Roosevelt Museum OF Nat
ural History" The collections were at
first kept In my room, until rebellion
on the part of the chambermaid re-
ceived the approval of the higher au-
thorities of the household, and the
collection was moved up to a kind of
bookcase in the back hall upstairs 1t
was the ordinary small boys collection
of curios, quite incongruous and en-
tirely valueless except from the stand
point of the boy himself My father
and mother encouraged me warmly in
this, as they always did in anything
that would give me wholesome pleas
ure or help to develop me.
The adventure of the seal and the
novels of Mayne Reid together
strengthened my instructive interest in
natural history. i was too young to
understand much of Mayne Reid. ex-
cepting the adventure part and the
natural history part-these enthralled
me. But, of course, my reading was
not wholly confined to natural history.
There was veJy little effort made to
compel me to read books, my father
and mother having the good sense not
TO try to get me to read anything l
did not like, unless 1t was in the way
of study. I was given the chance to
read books that they thought 1 ought
to read, but IL / did not like them L
was then given some other good book
that / did like. There were certain
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-14

The people of the Capital extend
their hearty greeting to the Daughters
of the American Revolution, whose
congress is opened this morning.
II is a wonderful organization, this
society-one of remarkable significance
and power. Among its members are
some of the nations best women, some
of them endowed with splendid con-
structive and administrative talents, all
of them worthy descendants of the
hardy stock which made the United
States of America, all of them moved
by an earnest patriotism, upon which
their society of hereditary distinctions
is founded.
In this congress there is forecasted
a great deal OF politics" over the
election of officers, ard so general IS
the interest in the society that the end
and the means to the end are to be
watched with almost popular interest.
Whatever is the final issue, the dignity
of the society, it is safe to predict, is
secure. and its lofty purposes assured
OF permanent progress.
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What Novel Readers Like.

From the Boston Globe.
That old question whether the poor
prefer to read stories about themselves
rather than about the rich has been re-
vived in England and discussed by Sc
rial writers. Some believe that most
readers, whether poor or rich, prefer
novels dealing with a class different
from their own, and some maintain
that the majority Of readers are more
interested in their own class. Nobody
knows. But something undoubtedly
depends upon the novelist himself.
Dickens had no difficulty in interest
ing everybody in the poor. Thackery
made the well-to-do and the rich in
teresting. So does Howells. So does
Mrs. Wharton. And innumerable 9TH
ers.
On the other hand, Jack London,
Kaufman, James Oppenheim. and pos
sibly two or three others have sketched
wonderful pictures of lowly and OBJ
scure lives. The great American
novel," which may have been written,
but is still awaiting publication, will
deal neither with the rich nor the
poor exclusively. nor with the middle
class, but with all sorts and conditions
of men. 1t will be a novel of democ-
racy-neither aristocratic nor proleta-
rian.
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ing manliness, decency, and good con-
duct.
At the cost of being deemed effeminate
/ will add that i greatly liked the girls
stories-"Pussy Willow and "A Summer
in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life just as
worshiped Little Men, and Little
Women and IAN Old-fashioned Girl"
The enjoyment of the geptler side of
life did not prevent my reveling in such
tales of adventure as Ballantyne's
stories. or Marryat's "Mdshipman
Easy + suppose everybody has kinks
in him, and even as child there were
books which I ought to have liked and
did not. For instance, 1 never cared at
all for the first part of Robinson
Crusoe" land although it is unquestlon-
ably the best part, / do not care Tor II
now: whereas the second part, contain
ing the adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
with the wolves in the Pyrenees. and
out in the far East simply fascinated
me- What / did like in the first part
were the adventures before Crusoe finally
reached his island, the fight with the
Sallee Rover, and the allusion TO the
strange beasts at night, taking their I'M
probable bath in the ocean.
Thanks to being already an embryo
BIOLOGIST. I disIiked the swiss Family
Robinson" because of the wholly fmpos-
sible collection of animals met by that
worthy family as they ambled inland
from the wreck Even in poetry it was
the relation of adventures that most
appealed to me as a boy. AT pretty
early age I began to read certain books
of poetry, notably Longfellows poems,
THE Saga of King Olaf" whicn ao-
sorbed me. This introduced me to Scan
dinavian literature, and 1 have never
lost my interest in and affection for it.
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STA SMEN-REAL AND NEAL
Bv FRED C.. KELLY

said. and they all thought it would be
too bad to have the value of their de-
posts cut right in two. The safest
thing. they figured, would be to take the
money out and put 1t where 1t couldn' I
depreciate. This idea went around, and
everybody went and drew his money
from the bank. And the bank busted"
Senator Bradley of Kentucky is par
ticular about what he eats. and has lot
of ideas about how things should be
cooked. Not long ago he went to a
place where they had chicken salad
sandwiches They made a hit with
Bradley, and he lost no time in seeking
out the manager of the Senate restau-
rant and talking TO him earnestly about
his discovery.
Now one finds chicken salad sand
witches on the menu there every day.
Whenever things are not breaking
right for Senator Borah and he feels
tired and overworked, she rests his brain
and jollies himself up by going home
and reading various learned works on
theology.
Copyright. 1873 by Fred C. Kelly. AL rights re-
servedl
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PONDEROUS PERSONAGES
WILLIAM THE SILENT
BY GEORGE FITCH,
Author of '.At Good Old Sfwash."

This is the birthday Of William the 81
lent, man who liberated his country
before he was twenty-five years old with
out the aid of oratory or press agents.
William the Silent was Dutchman who
was born in Nassau in 1853. He was born
a prince, which was hard luck in those
days, for the poor Dutch boys could grow
up in peace, accommodating gold and trous-
ers, while the princes had to get out at
an early age and hustle to hold their
jobs.
William was a prince, but he didn't
have any time to waste with the other
boys. When he was thirteen the King OF
Spain decided to exterminate ali the Prot
estants in Holland, and young William
had to buckle on his armor and save his
province.
This was considerable Of a task for
boy of that size. but soon William got in
deeper than ever. He did such good work
in Nassau that he had to undertake the
job of saving all Holland, and for six
years, at an age when other boys were
navigating the canals, falling in and out
of love, and learning to do the Dutch roll
en- skates, William was fighting Spaniards
sixteen hours day, with no time OF on
holidays. Many time while hastily skip
ping across canals in front of an over
whelming force armed with gridirons.
thumbscrews, and hot lead. he doubtless
wondered why the prince Job had been
wished on him. But he never faltered or
tried to pass it on to personal enemy.
When William was twenty-five years
old the Spaniards got so pestiferous that
he cut all the bikes in Holland and
flooded the country. The Dutch, having
webbed feet. did not mind this in the
least, but the Spanish were drowned in
great numbers and gave UP William - =
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-14
The Minimum Wage Movement.

A popular song being authority for
the statement that Heaven VIII
Protect the Working Girl" even when
she has to dress on nothing a year
after paying her board and incidental
expenses, the movement of a mini
mum wage may well be extended to
other classes, beginning with underpaid
government clerks, and embracing ar
fists, poets, and literary fellows gen.
orally.
According to the conventional old
fashioned and essentially bourgeois
and provincial standpoint, none of
these toilers ought to indulge in more
than one square" meal a day-despite
the Injunction of the sagacious Abra-
ham Lincoln that every one should eat
three, and solve the problem of max
ing four out of two in communities
where prices have increased to metro
politan rates and salaries have stood
of the privileged" classes, even
trained talent ought to be satisfied
with anything that is handed it, and
frst-class work be supplied at third
rate compensation.
The class of government employe
who is really competent can easily &C
complish in four hours what some of
his inefficient associates cannot do
even though they were given double
the time. Ability and judgment are
not to be measured by hours and mill
utes 1t takes President Wilson much
less time to make up his mind and do
something decisive than it did some
of his predecessors to think it over"
and see about it." On the same prin-
ciple, there are workers and workers,
and the rewards ought TO go to quality
rather than quantity.
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Ninth Installnient.

think there ought to be childrens
books. I think that the child will like
grown-up book also. and 1 do not believe
a childs book is really good unless
grown-ups get something out of it. For
instance. there is book l did not have
when I was a child because it was not
written. 1t is Laura z. Richards
Nursery Rhymes" My own children
loved them dearly, and their mother
and I loved them almost equally; the
delightfully."- light-hearted Man from
New Mexico Who Lost His Grandmother
Out in the Snow the adventures of
1.-The Owl. the Eel. and the Warming
Pan" and the extraordinary genealogy
Of the kangaroo whose father was
whale with a feather in his tail who
lived in the Greenland Sea- while his
mother was a shark who kept very dark
in the Gulf of Caribbee."
As a small boy / had "Our Young
Folks" which I then firmly believed to
be the very best magzine in the world
belief. / may add, which / have kept
to this day unchanged, for l seriously
doubt If any magazine for old or yourS
has ever surpassed it. Both my wife and
I have the bound volumes of Our
Young Folks" which we preserved from
our youth. I have tried to read again
the Mayne Reid books which / so dearly
loved as boy, only to find, alas! that
II is impossible. But I really believe
that I enjoy going over "Our Young
Folks now nearly as much as ever.
Cast Away in the Cold, Grand
fathers Struggle for Homestead.
'The William Henry Letters" and a
dozen others like them were first-class.
good. healthy stories. interesting in the
first place, and in the next place teach
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Senator Mare Smith of Arizona is
above all things Democrat. If he were
to eat too much Welsh rabbit late some
night he would dream that he had
scratched a ticket. and then he would
wake up in cold perspiration. Between
Republican or independent ticket
headed by Woodrow Wilson and the
twelve apostles and a Democratic ticket
headed by Bald Jack Rose, he would
ond He would cast his ballot for Jack
pride.
All this being true, Marc Smith has
long been vexed over the fact that the
leading hotels down in Phoenix, Ariz..
are managed by Republicans. He re-
CARDS this circumstance as a serious blot
on the honor of his State.
One night Smith came into Phoenix
tired and travel-worn and went to the
leading hotel He knew the manager
was a Republican, but the other hotels
were just as disgraceful in that respect,
and he intended to make the best of It.
As he wrote his name on the register
a dapper young clerk asked him breezily:
Something with a bath. Mr.. Smith
Marc Smith drew himself up and stared
AT the young man who had hurled the
insult.
NO, he roared IN tone that maze
the clerk shriveI up like dried beef, Il
don't want something with bath or
any other OF your fancy business. I'm
Democrat"
Secretary of State William J. Bryan
was recounting to a little party OF
friends the other day an incident con-
nected with William ]. Bryan's first
Presidential campaign.
A city in Nebraska thickly peopled with
laboring classes seemed certain to go
for Bryan. and the Republican leaders
saw that something must be done. They
conferred with the leading local bankers
and told them to think up some scheme
to scare everybody into voting for sound
money
The next day, the most prominent
banker in town called one Of his deposit
tors, a laboring man, aside and told him
the situation.
81 have been a lifelong Democrat" said
the banker, "but / intend to vote for Nc
Kinley, for the good of the country, and
1 hope you will do the same. Now, you
have some money on deposit here-not
whole lot Of money, perhaps, but money
that you have worked hard to save. If
Bryan's elected, it will be worth just
half what it is now"
And the man went away thoughtful.
He told his friends what the banker had
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-14

trying to help me. / went very little
to school. / never went to the public
schools. as my own children later did.
both at the Cove" School, at Oyster
Bay, and at the Ford School, in Wash
ington. For a few months 1 attended
Prof, McMullen's School, in Twentieth
Street, near the house where l was
born, but most Of the time had tutors.
As 1 have already said, my aunt taught
me when / was small. At one time We
had a French governess. a loved and
valued 'mam'selle." in the household.
When I was ten years old 1 made my
first journey to Europe. My birthday
was spent in Cologne, and. in order to
give me a thoroughly party" feeling,
remember that my mother put on
full dress for my birthday dinner.
do not think l gained anything from
this particular trip abroad. / cordially
hated 1t, as did my younger brother
and sister. Practically all the employ
ment we had was in exploring any
ruins or mountains when we could get
away from our elders, and in playing
in the different hotels. Our one desire
was to get back TO America, and we
regarded Europe with the most igno-
rant Chauvinism and contempt. Four
years later, however, / made another
journey to Europe. and was old enough
to enjoy 1t thoroughly and profit by 1t.
While still a small boy I began to
take interest in natural history. l re-
member distinctly the first day that 1
started on my career as zoologist. I
was walking up. Broadway, and as
passed the market TO which l used
sometimes to be sent before breakfast
to get Strawberries, I suddenly saw a
dead seal laid out on a slab of wood.
That seal filled me with every possible
feeling of romance and adventure
asked where il was killed, and was in
formed in the harbor. l had already
begun to read some of Mayne Reid s
books and other boys books of adven-
ture, and I felt that this seal brought
all these adventures in realistic fash
ion before me. AS long as that seal
remained there I haunted the neigh
borhood OF the market day after day. I
measured 1t. and recall that not having
a tape measure, had to do my best TO
get its girth with folding pocket
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-14
Senator Fall and Sonofa.

Senator Fall of New Mexico may
be bit too patriotic in his advocacy
of the annexation of the Northern
States of Mexico. His native State
is close neighbor to Sonora,
which at present is up in arms against
the Huerta government Most of the
rich Sonora mines are financed by
Americans, and as a result there is
great sympathy in New Mexico with
the Sonora people.
While all these influences may make
the wish father to the thought, the
Senator is not by any means the first
man to advance the plan of the United
States acquiring Sonora as 'eminently
desirable" In the minds of the believ-
ers in our "manifest that
State always has beer OBJ
jective in view. II he
scope of the plans IN
of the slave territory the
civil war. Next we !. d; was
when Walker, the filibuster, led an in
vasion into that State and failed. He
was tried for violation of the neutral
ity laws and acquitted by San Fran
cisco jury.
Sonora is SO far from the Mexican
Caoital that Huerta would have 70
move very quickly if he would pre-
vent the Northern States from or
ganizing effectually in opposition to his
tyrannical sway
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.e Hihcrnian Society of savannah

The Hibcrnian Society of Savannah.
From the Augusta Chronicle.
1.-THE Story of Century the His
tory of the Hibernian Society, of Savar-
nah,s Georgia. presented in magnifi-
cent volume. in itself a triumph of the
printers art. and setting out a narrative
of remarkable personal interest and Of
high loyalty and patriotic devotion, has
just been issued by the organization
named.
The Hibernian Society of Savannah.
last year celebrated its anniversary. The
President of the United States, William
H. Taft, was the distinguished guest
The publication referred to Is souvenir
of that celebration. This Story or
Century Is most admirably prepared by
Mr.. Arthur J. O'Hara. historian. 1t
presents excellent portraits of the presi-
deats of the society. from Hon. John
Cumming. its first executive. TO Hon.
Peter W. Medium. its centennial Year
president. and Hon. Michael A. oByrns.
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destiny more to be coveted than to
be mother and wife.
Organized effort in the United
States to obtain the ballot for women
is conducted on different basis. 1t
does not depend upon anarchy for in
dorsement or success. Orderly mass
meetings in Michigan, and the declara-
ton of the Pennsylvania Woman Suf-
frage Association, disavowing any
sympathy with militant demonstrations,
are typical of the spirit in which the
campaign in behalf of the women in
this country is conducted.
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Sufragists Here and Abroad.

Such women as must have publicity
at any price will rally around the
standards of leaders who promise
them emancipation from all trammels
OF duty, of society, perhaps even of
religion anG of womanhood. That is
what Mrs. Pankhurst and her lieuten-
ants are promising.
Militant suffragetteS in England
have discovered that there are moral"
humiliations in the marriage service of
the Church of England, chief among
these the promise of wifely obedience
The text which these reformers and
equal-righters would enforce upon Of
floating clergymen repudiates any
promise of fealty that is not made
by the husband also. This recalls that
when the late and venerable Arch
bishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, once
was asked his opinion in regard to
the word obey" and whether he ia
vored its retention or omission, he re-
piled that "in any marriage worthy
Of the name the question of obey as
between husband and wife did not
arise"
To the followers of Mrs. Pankhurst
any suggestion of restraint is obnox-
ious. They desire to fulfill neither
ehe law of the state nor that of the
home. In their efforts to secure the
privilege of the ballot there are MEM
bers of the Woman's Social and Po-
litical Union who are willing to go TO
any extreme to vent their spite upon
society for refusing them. They are
at war with everything that the prog
ress of civilization mas accomplished.
To them to be a political fury is
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Musical Tones I'm Architecture.


From the Christian Herald.
II has long been believed that each
Of the mammoth buildings of the world
will vibrate in response to some special
musical tone. Architects believe they
have found the tones for such famous
structures as the Cathedral of Cologne,
Notre Dame in Paris, and st. Paurs in
London. Certainly it is true that each
Of these buildings returns to the ear of
the listener that one tone intensified and
augmented to a surprising extent. The
corollary statement that this keynote If
sounded long enough and with sufficient
force would bring disaster has never been
proved.
When the conversation turns to the
skyscraper, one often hears timorous
folk say, well, it's all very fine for
those who like it, but I'd rather stay
nearer the ground" Yet the steel and
stone giants, where the elevators whirl
up twenty, thirty. forty, fifty stories.
have stood all the tests their histories
have made possible, and there, far above
the dust and turmoil of the streets. thou
sands pursue their business in absolute
safety.
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Modern and Future Wonders.

From the Troy Standard Press.
The seven wonders of the modern
world, according to a poll taken of LOCO
scientists by Popular Mechanics, are
wireless biography. the telephone, the
aeroplane, radium, antisceptics, spectrum
analysis and the X-ray.
This is twenty centuries after the
Greeks had agreed upon a list Of seven
wonders. Twenty centuries hence the
list may run something like this: Uni
versa. peace, upiversal justice, the end
of mans exploitation of man, the end
Of crime. the conquest of all infectious
diseases. the adjustment of poverty and
the establishment Of true equality and
brotherhood.