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The Washington herald., 1913-03-22
ANOTHER victim OF
UNMUzzLED Dogs
F. L. Ford Bitten ON Street oi
Virginia Town-Wound
Cauterized.
OTHER TOWN HAPPENINGS

Alexandria, Va. March 21.-F. L. Ford
was bitten on the leg. about O'Clock
tonight, when on Fairfax Street, near
King. by a dog believed to have been
mad. Mr.. Ford at once went to the Of
flce of a physician and had the wound
cauterized. He also made report OF
the matter to the police, and 1t is ex-
pected that the case will be brought
into court In the morning. This adds
TO the already long list of victims in
Alexandria that during the past two
weeks have been bitten by sileged mad
dogs. and has greatly added to the
mad dog scare now prevailing in this
city
The general opinion is that there are
large number of dogs in the city that
are now mad. The heads of the ami
mails are being sent to the Bureau of
Animal Industry. Washington. as rapid
ly as the dogs are being dispatched. for
the purpose of ascertaining whether or
not the animals are suffering from
rabies. Reports that they were suffer
ing from such have been received from
the department regarding all the dogs
heads thus reported on. Reports on the
heads of two dogs that recently at
tackled children are eagerly awaited.
The first prosecution under the new pro-
visions OF the new set of health laws
which makes il a misdemeanor to dis
tribute handbills or dodgers around the
city. came up on complaint OF Sergt-
Wilkinson when j., II. Steloff. who is in
charge of 4 sale being conducted here.
was arraisned for the offense. The court
imposed the minimum fine Of 81 in this
case. The court believes that this will
stop the practice.
Witnesses Are Released.
Elizabeth Frederick. May Evans. Flor
ence Williams, and Ella Asher held since
March last at the Florence Crittendon
Home Washington, as material witnesses
for the government in the white slave
case pending against Minnie Hahn. alias
Minnie Smith. were today brought be-
fore United States Commissioner r. p.
W. Garnett and released on furnishing
a bail bond in the sum OF 500 for their
appearance in court at the July term,
when the case is slated to he tried.
The Etchison Construction Company,
with a capital stock of $4,000 and
minimum of sl.ooO, has been chartered
by the State Corporation Commission.
The objects are a general contracting
business. Officers and directors are:
Howard NJ Etchison. president: William
\. Mills, secretary, and William l..
Lannins. all of Washington.
The body of Mark F.. Miller. a former
resident, who died in Washington. was
brought here this afternoon and buried
in Bethel Cemetery.
Through their attorneys, Finney and
Ball. of Alexandria County. and c.
Vernon Ford. of Fairfax County, Mrs.
Elizabeth Hasbrouck and Miss Nora
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few girls from finish

that it has kept more than few girls from finish
ing the course and graduating.
The fault is primarily with the more well-to-do
parents, who do for their children that which they
easily enough afford, but which being done for
few children in class, makes it necessary for the
less fortunate families to conform to the standard
thus SET 1t is no answer to say that the poor girl
should be sensible and not expect as much as the
wealthy girl The poor girl is human being-and
girl. The way to make the commencement demo-
cratic is to insist upon its democracy 1t could be
done by an agreement among teachers and parents,
if the parents would be sensible about it. The teach
ers, almost invariably would gladly cooperate. They
know the heartburnings anl sorrows that graduation
means to altogether too many girls.
And flowers. They should be absolutely abolished.
The girl from the fortunate stage of life gets them
in profusion; the girl to whose friends the buying OF
them would be real burden, must be denied them.
The flowers that are piled up for one girl mean
merely tears and hearache for the girl who gets none
This sort of senseless and impossible competition
goes on in this town at every commencement season.
Now is the time to stop it. Let the public schools
be true to their name Let the snobbey be kept out
of them.
The Washington times., 1913-05-19
I he Stories of :
2F nous Novels
3 BY Albert Fayson Terhune
NO. 2s.-cHARLEs oMALLEY, by Charles Lever.

~HARLEs oMALLEY
the IMPOVERISHED dashing Galway
horseman
primary school child He
Tor lad At
daughter violently in
man. who
Charles ammer.rey in
a soldier Cbsre. ur,
my 10 be
Charles
ar orsot himself as to throw
oManey ~ ~ - ~ '' "''u'
Bodkn CHALLENGED Charles to mortal combat
for dead 90 ~ ' ' H =" NA'
Soon Her father in
persuaded Godfrey to let
him n a
Before joining his
ne was ett miserable doubt to whether
"
Napoleon Bonapate's French
Then
young shman
O - " ' - ~
Also desperate love to
~ dhs passing ndety brought its punishment
OF the
ireland where unces
the himself
a ~
~ al Brussels to repe the Enp and he did gallant service
ensuing battle Of Waterloo
round
In order to free General Eastwood
The OF
Charles himself
to lead charge side
o Maiiey came out of the
HIS nrst thought find
win her love This time
service to him.
Charles O. Maney's
ner heeateF settled down happily
man.
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AN INEXCUSABLE DISASTER.

1t is little less than miracle that there was not
heavy loss of life in the Sunday fire that came near
cutting the establishment of the Geological Survey
street. Year after year, for period so long that
memory runneth not contrariwse, the recommends
ton has been forwarded to Congress that prop
er provision of quarters be made for this service.
But the provision is never made
Time and again the disaster has been narrowly
avoided and each time the newspapers of the town
write this editorial over in form another. That
is all that happens. Occasionally somebody rises in
Congress to point out the near-crimnality of such
conditions; but still nothing happens.
If the Sunday fire had happened on another day,
loss of life might have been unavoidable. The Won
der of it all is that the old retrap of establish
ment was saved at all. 1t is not much the fault
of the building as of its for its present purposes.
The vast accumulation of records, data, scientific
terial by the Survey, is piled there in structure
utterly untitled to house it, and without facilities for
protecting it from fire. There is knowing what
this storehouse of material is worth; it is the sort
of material that connot be estimated in dollars
Let the Government 60 right on neglecting the
Geological Survey and leaving it where and as it is
and one day there will be a regular Triangle fire in
that building. Nobody will be to blame, of course :;
nobody ever is Everybodys business is nobodys
business; and it does seem as if the Governments
business likewise is nobodys.
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THE INEVITABLE READJUsTMENT.

Imports of those things on which the Underwood
bill will increase the duties are increasing. Imports
of those which it is expected reduce the duties
are falling off.
That is just an inevitable incident to making a
tariff bill The same true at this time four years
ago. though at that time it more difficult for i'm
porters to learn what they ought to import and what
they ought to avoid, because there we're many
complexities about the schemes of making rates
that their real effect not always easy to calculate.
The Payne-Aldrch measure called itself down.
ward revision but was widely denounced as an up
ward revision in disguise. At least the wilson nder-
wood revision is the level its downward all along
the line, and mighty little subterfuge about it.
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THE GOODROADS YEARBOOK.

The American Highway Association has just is.
sued its yearbook of the good roads movement. II
is handsome volume of almost 600 pages and con.
tains carefully prepared material the road ques-
ton new feature of great value to Legislators and
students of the subject is department dealing with
the road laws and methods of foreign countries The
laws Of different States in this country analyzed
and their operations compared.
Altogether the volume. which is the second an
nual of the organization, is deserving of wide crcu-
lation, and should be the of helping many en-
thusiastic advocates of good roads to mix larger
portion Of sense and understanding with their zeal.
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THE LIVING DEATH AT MACON.

A more dramatically fearful situation than that OF
Banker Walker, of Macon, Ga, condemned to die
within few days at most, knowing his case abso-
lutely hopeless, and yet quite unable to feel the ef
fects of the poison that is slowly killing him, could
with difficulty be pictured. Walker took bichloride
of mercury by mistake When the mistake was
learned his physicians told him that there was abso-
lutely no known antidote; the poison would in its
own time pervade his system and destroy the kidneys
and liver. He might live number of hours even
days.
Feeling almost as usual, yet knowing he must die,
Walker has attended family affairs business, etc.,
while his friends have appealed to the scientific
world for help, if help there possibly be found
But there appears no chance. The case is not new.
Ii is well known to the medical profession that
Walker got his sentence as it was positively
known what had happened to him.
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THE GRADUATION GOWN.

Perhaps its too late; perhaps the damage is al.
ready done. But in the cheerful hope that it may
not be quite too late, word in plea for some re.
forms in the commencement exercises of the city
schools.
Its hackneyed, but it has as much need as ever
to be said that the graduation dresses and the class
night dresses and the various other party confectons
that the pretty graduate requires often constitute
undue tax on the family resources. mother
who has gone through the struggle tells The Times
that it takes $3.50 to outfit high school graduate so
that she is sure feel comfortable among her class
mates. A good many mothers have confessed that it
requires real struggle, in many cases. More than
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that will soon blow over. This is an
open town and we are allowed to Oper-
ate here. Some towns are closed.
You see. when a person once starts
consulting a star gazer it soon becomes
a habit II one crystal man tells them
bad news they go TO another for relief.
II one clairvoyant tells them good news
they consult another for confirmation.
We fellows keep a list and stick TO
nearly the same story.
This town is grand for the business.
Some of the best people come sneakinS
into my place after dark: For that rea-
son | hav" my office i'll httle side
street. When 7 lamped You standing
here | was longing for chat with a
live wire from Wiseland. At times this
ruhe stuff gets very wearysome.
DO you think you will remain here
I asked
There you go falling for this c;air-
yoyant spiel yourself. II there was any
thing in this read-the-future business l
wouldn't be out in Dubois. Pa
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ENDING OUR ALLEY SLUMS.

Isn't II just possible that the cart has got before
the horse in this plan of making Washington slum.
less town by simply abolishing the sums It's all very
well to get Congress to appropriate money to buy
up the alley property and convert it into parks. But
is that an assurance that anything substantial will
have been gained?
We don't understand that it is part of this plan to
asphyXiate deport the unfortunate people who live
in these places. No is it any part of the plan
to provide effectively for them. The notion that
you can end misery by tearing down the habtations
| of misery is about as fatuous as could we'll be
| imagined.
Anything like general project for ending slum
conditions in this or any other city has got to be
organized exactly the reverse plan 1t must begin
with building, not with tearing down. Show these
unfortunates some better place in which to live and
you will still have difficulty getting them 60 there
There is nothing more gregarious and social than
poverty and vice. Take out of an alley sum
woman who has lived there for thirty-two years, as
one described in The Sunday Evening Times, and
give her, for the cost decent sanitary clean
little flat or house in which she could live and con-
tnue to do laundry work for her customers. How
much chance is there that she would be satisfied to
stay there, and that she would stay? Experience in
London, in Liverpool, in Edinboro, bears out the
statement that getting that of people into better
surroundings is only. the beginning of the task. 4
Municipal housing plans are needed as tine really
proper beginning of this sum problem for Wash
ington. Tearing down the meager shelters that now
exist would only make the problem worse for the
people turned out into the streets. 1t may please
people who own property in regions affected by the
adjacency to slums. 1t may please those who ex-
pect to sell their sum holdings for fancy prices to
the Government. But all that is not providing place
to put the dispossessed wretches who now live in
these slums.
Talk about making model city of Washington is
very well; but the model city will be city with a
housing commission and an intelligent, extensive
thoroughly backed and well-fnanced program of mu-
nicipal tenement construction and renting That is
one of the things worth while for Washington to
teach the country through this model administration
that we are always going to acquire time in
the future.
Before we 60 tearing out the alley slums and
turning them into parks let's see who owns the real
estate and how much the owners will profit.
Let's see who owns surrounding real estate and
whether it could not afford to pay substantial as
sessment on account of benefits
Then let's see if the hundreds of people turned
out of one slum neighborhood wouldn't take posses
sion of another, make it just as bad, and leave the
problem precisely where it was in the beginning.
The Washington times., 1913-05-19
Are You a Pessimist? Why?
By Clarence L. Cullen

from the juvenile fcolishness, we dis
cover that all the time our sage, expe-
rienced elders, who really have been
over the jumps, have been covertly
laughing at u.s.
Yet the adolescence of youth fastened
itself for a little while upon some OF
the greatest minds in history Shake
speare himself polished his quill for bit
ter utterances in his younger day-and
yet he came TO The Merry Wives OF
Windsor and had, in his later time,
some superbly jeerful words. for pro-
fessed pessimists. though they were not
called pessimists in his day.
Goethe maintained a fine tcploftical
pose OF pessimism at the court of the
Duke of Weimar during his young. IN
formed period But his pessimism dis
solved finally n tenderness. What a
rollicking fine pessimist Byron was In
his youth and even in his niiudle
period, But his "Corsair' and bis
Manfred" and his Cain" were topped
at the end by his often CHEEKY Don
Juan" and in that work he has many
happy fling at the absurdity of the
dark humors of his youth. And at
Venice and Ravenna he became lat
and more than middling contentei for
all the blackness of outlook which he
professed to have in his earlier DAYS
But. like the chicken pox. r1umrs.
scarlet fever and so on. it is better TO
have ones visitation OF pessimism IN
youth rather than in later life When
We develop II in late life IL Is pretty
fair indication that the fight has gore
against US and that We are sore simply
because We ourselves have lost the bat
tie The middle-aGed or elderly pes
simist- in brief, generally has a kick
a-Coming, even il taere be no excise
for his pessimism-
But our youthful pessimisn. beng
merely a pose which we assume for
purposes. falls away from
us and generally leaves US immune
from further attacks. II Is one Of
those things that we must get out Of
our systems early-before we make our
real debut on the firing line,
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SOME ELDER CRAFTSMANSHIP.

Count Okuma, long foreign minister of Japan
talked to great meeting in Toxic Sunday about the
California crisis He pointed out that California is
merely taking the same position toward foreigners
that Japan took for many centuries, and he opines
that California will at length become enlightened
and modernized, just as Japan did, He observed:
We despised the foreigners because they looked
different; did not consider them human beings ia
pan finally the fasity of its position became
underlie the California question but like the japanese
the Cafornians will the folly of their position and
truth and Justice will triumph.
At future day the Californians will laugh at
their fathers and grandahers for driving off the Japan
just laugh the anti-foregn absurdities
of the Samurai
The count would seem to have better end of the
argument. Why don't they start foreign missionary
society in Toxic and send missionaries of modernism
to California?
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AS TO ALIEN OWNERSHIP.

A big Texas ranch of 100000 acres has just been
sold to syndicate of British capitalists Big it is
this tract is really modest compared to num-
Der of the really large holdings that British citizens
or companies own in Texas
AS between Japanese holding an acre and a
half and raising strawberries on it, and British syn
dicate buying land by the half-county, we suppose
that the japanese and his strawberry patch are the
real menace to our Institutions; nobody seems to
worry about the other. But somehow it isn't always
easy to realize the point
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Hh.ts S on tie Program, il
Washington Toda,

The following Masonic orgsnizatfors
VIII meet tonight: Lodges-Potornar
no. 10 T. ~; Benjamin 3. French
no l., Z. A; Pentalpha, No. 2S. f. A
hhlshts Templar-Orient ConmanS-
cry; No. ., Orders of Temple ana
MaIta. Eastern Star-Ruth Chapter.
The following ]. .. o. =. orranfz,-
lions will meet tonight: lode
Langdon. No. 20, degree: Union. X,
II: covenant. No. IS. and Beacon. H
10. business. Rebekah LodSes-Naorni
No :: Ruth. No -
The following X. of P. lodges will M.
tonight: Equal. No. Il; Amaratb X,
y: Century. No. 81. w.
Will meet tonight: Potomac ana Ssms
trail.
Meeting OF Usage Tribe, No. sI a
r. NJ. tonight.
The following X. o. T. NJ. tents will
meet tonight: National, MI. Vern,,n'
and AnacoStia.
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w 1HEN young man goes in fol
NM pessimism he makes a deer
v dive of it. He energizes al

Il
| NM pessfmism he makes a deep
| " v dive of 1t. He energizes at
| pessimism as a bird dog al
retrieving, and he out-Timons Timon.
he demands the spotlight for this eos
turing. He wants the whole world TO
Know that he is a pessimist He de-
! 'slres that 1t be thoroughly Understood
that he is ''disillusioned" He wants
1t distinctly to be known that, for him,
lie has turned to ashes. He enjoys tile
pose.
Very often he gets away with il, cs-
peciaiiy in the view of the impression
able and inexperienced young women
OF his circle. He himself believes that
he Is a pessimist. Some very uuoy,,nt.
not to say exuberant. young men irfiict
all but irreparable injury 20 their facial
muscles by keeping their countenances
screwed up gloomily in order to give
exterior verisimilitude to their pessi-
mistic pose.
The desire to sing and shout and
dance with glee may abide strongly
within them-but no. they must not
give way to such absurdities of ground
lings-I. G. optimists. They are sur
charged with gloom. or want TO be md
think they are. and that's all there is
ABOUT II. OFTEN, though, il comes hard
for many of them to go on attitudiniz-
ing as pessimists. When. involuntarily
they begin to hum or to whistle from
sheer JOY in life and the sense OF we'll
oeing-Sh-sh-sh, they suddenly glance
Suiltily about. fearing that the have
been overheard. Which would be ruin
Gus TO their regulations as pessimists.
1t is whimsy phase of adolescence
through which most of us pass in our
youth-this yealy pessimism. But II "a
not serious. The prognosis almost al
ways Is complete recovery. We imagine
mat the pose is impressive How hu
hiliatei We are when. upon recoverine
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The Champion 0ptimiSt.

1--WE award the championship
W. diamond belt for optimism to
" resident Of one OF the rural
districts of scotland As the
story goes, an old man was sitting on
the roof OF his house during a flood
watching the waters flow past. when
a neighbor who possessed a boat rowed
across to him.
Hello. Bill he said.
Hello. Sam" replied the other
"All your fowls washed away this
mornin' Bill?"
Yes, but the ducks can SWIM"
Apple trees gone. too. eh?"
We'll. they said the crop would be a
failure. anyhow
Il see the rivers reached above your
windows"
That's all right. Sam, Them winders
needed washin' Boston Globe
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The NJ an on the Road
BY IL T. Raa..
THE CLAIRVOYANT.
BY e. 7. Rak1n..
Asst trip I made Dubois pa ..

</T Asst trip l made Dubois. Pa. -
began the jewelrv salesman
TO the little crowd OF road
men in the station. When
finished the two dealers In the town,
and was wondering whether ] would
beat the town or take a snooze at The
hotel a long-haired. actor-I looking man
came up to me and asked: Stranger
what is your graft?'"
Jewelry.' replied. What is
yours?'
I'm a clairvoyant I've tried books
mining stock. insurance, and music les.
sons. but each time | get back to the
old line-clairvoyancy.
How do you find business"
Just now IL is slow. There was An
other fellow here and he got run ont n,
town last week. He got hold Of an old
maid and persuaded her to invs., .II
her savings In . "phony' mine. But
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GOOD STORIES
lust to Please Him.

1.-TWO sufragettes were met together.
and the one had a grievance
against the other.
I am told" she said severely,
'nat YOU allow your husband to carry
a iatch key. Is it possible?''
Yes, answered the other, with an
lidulsent smile. Il do let the poor how
Say SaIry latch key, 1 must admit. But il
uoesn ~ the door. | just let him car
20 ms friends. you know. and make them
'nihk hes Independent. t."-Everybody's
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Poor Old Joe!

l H. v
| Nu who has created some little
| VI stir by his remarks on the
useless discussion in parlia-
| ment. tells an amusing story of a visit
his father. Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain,
once paid TO the Zoo. says Pearson's
Weekly.
The famous statesman passed before
the hippotamus and. having beckOned
TO one of the keepers to whom he was
quite we'll known, he asked the brute )
name. The man blushed scarlet. and
looked rather embarrassed. but made no
reply.
Come. come" said Mr.. Chamberlain.
what do you call the beast? You have
a name for IL, haven't you?'
Yes, sir" stammered the man.
Then what is it," asked Mr.. Cham
herlain sharply.
The poor man seemed TO be laboring
under great emotion.
Il don't like to say it. SIR" he re-
piled.
Why not?''
"You-you wouldn't like ii. sir
''Oh. never mind that" Mr.. chamber
lain replied. his curiosity now thorough
" aroused tell me its name"
The man sighed hopeleSsly.
You really won't like it. Mr.. Cham
berlain. sir. We've calls i'm Joe,'
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Were it not for protests received, this
space would be permeated by a para
graph relative to the development OF
the express business in America. To
those who might worry we announce
that the case still is pending in court.
The Washington times., 1913-05-19

West Pointers and others who have
got into trouble by 1t may be inter-
ested in what the Star" has to say
on the subject. The first prize" 1t re-
marks. speaking of the shad-bake, will
be a safety-hazor.
The Washington times., 1913-05-19
Amusements.

Nationalist BoEeme," Sis p, m
Sis r. III.
Polis-"The Million" Sis p. N.
Belasco-Motton pictures of South Pol.
$50 .. IN.
Chase's-TalkinG pictures. 1 TO II m
CUSmos-VaudeviIle
Casino-Naudeville.
Gayety-Wrestling. tonight
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FIREARMS

tod friends culled from the POST and
Herald" and which will apnear
In our forthcoming volume
The Handy Reporter
Stubborn blaze"
Completely wrecked"
Damaged to ar extent"
THE fire was discovered"
Total damage"
Made considerable headway-"
The fire broke out"
Finally under control"
Great volumes Of smoke"
"One Of the worst fires In the history
of the department"
The splendid work of the firemen--