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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
Ships that Pass.

The public has become quite used &c
the brief life and briefer usefulness:
of the battleship. Almost before tn,
battleships of one Congress program
are In commission, they are obsolesceni
in relation to the new types author.
lied by a succeeding Congress. Ths
battleships, which were the personih-
cations of American efficiency in the
Spanish war. would be totally unable
to cope with tho war vessels being
launched now. The Dreadnough
planned when that designation was the
last word in naval architecture ha!
given first place to a bigger and bet.
ter Dreadnought. Great steel CLAD
ieviathans, at mere glimpse of which
other vessels were once expected &c
hcavc to helplessly, are used as tar
gets for their SUCCESSORS.
The ocean Liner" passes less OBJ
servably. The new floating palaces,
of course, are made known at oncs
and thoroughly to the people; adver.
Using of maritime traffic is as efficient
as that of any other kind. But the
older vessels sink into 'tramps' OF
are laid aside and forgotten. Prob
ably only few persons reflect how
swiftly the evolution of the merchant
vessel of modern times proceeds
Every little while there are article:
printed about wooden sailing vessels Z
century old-though there are now bu
few of them-thst still swim the vast,
deep; but except among habitual trans
Atlantic travellers, small notice is taker
of the passing of the aged ocean grey.
hounds which quarter of a century
ago were surprising the world b,
crossing the Atlantic in less than tho
hitherto allotted week, with an. occa
sional picturesque ''limping into port
that even the hurried newspaper head.
liner has long since discarded as ar
exaggeration of the commonplace.
The Cunarder Campania is a fan
example of this nearly cphcmera.
evanescence of the ocean greyhound.
glory. In her twenty-one years of use.
fulness she has carried on her 24t
round voyages more than 10000 first.
cabin passengers. Though, compared
with the liners. of today, the Cam
pania is small ship, her length be.
ing Cor feet; her beam, IS; her ton.
mage, 1880, and her horsepower
10000. She was one of the great boat.
of the COS.
Her fastest trip eastward was days
% hours, 10 minutes on October Is
1894, and her record trip westward wa.
S days, 9 hours, 6 minutes, at an ayeras,
speed of aI8 knots on August ~, 1896
The record of the Mauritania, which
has not yet been beaten, from Queens
town toN New York. is 4 days, 10 hours
and II minutes, made September IS
1910. and eastward to Queenstown !
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
n Ck.eaunel Rsi|bss1a

Fairfax Harrison. the new president
|of the Southern Railway, in IN address
i'm this city on Saturday night. gave Ut
tessnce to truths which two years, OF
even a year ago. would have fallen
upon deaf cara; or else they would
have been received with the scofhng Of
IN unbeIieving public Today they vii
|be accorded respectful consideration BY
the yawmairer, be he radical, oonsesvs-
tive, reformer. or standpatter, by the
men of commerce and by the plain cit
|isen. Mr.. Harrison said:
Every intelligent man knows that the
railroads are in difficulties today, and
knows, too, that those difficulties are
due in part to the past history of the
railroads, but in part also to the process
of adjustment to a system of public
regulation which has been accepted as
an accomplished fact, but has, neverthe-
less, gone further into detail of abso-
lutte statute law than any system OF
public regulation, even of the activities
of government itself, which the world
has ever known.
Few there are now who will dispute
the statement that ''the railroads are in
difficulties today" and few will refuse
to admit that ways must be found to
overcome these difficulties IN order to
meet the great and growing demands
of commerce to which President Will
son gave recognition in his address to
Congress on trust legislation
The railroads have been over-regu-
lated, due in part, as President Harri-
son says, to their past history" They
have been made the victims of the
American tendency to overdo things,
in legislation, as in many other things,
Our laws too often fail to establish
the happy medium, basis of justice
and equity. One class is impoverished,
while others grow fat as the result.
Now it is the railroads which have
fallen upon the lean years. The rail-
roads needed regulating, of course. The
past history" of many of them proved
it. But the regulating has been going
on during most of the last decade and
as a result many of the roads arc run
down at the heel. Great systems are
years behind the countrys needs in
trackage and in rolling stock; big cities
have long outgrown their depot facil-
tiles. There must be refurnishing on
a large scale to meet the demands of
the onrushing wave of prosperity which
the political party in power has sight
ed for US. Our wealth of products
will avail US nothing if we cannot con-
v.y them to the waiting markets.
The roads have learned well their
lesson, and paid for it in a dear school.
They have mended their ways and the
time has arrived to make terms. The
cry cannot be mo quarter" because its
other name is national suicide. Govern
'ment ownership, too, is yet afar off.
President Wilson has said that a get
together spirit dominates the situation
today between government and corpo-
ration. So let the wheels 60 round.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
At Washington Hotels.

Powhatan-S. p. Spencer and wife. st.
Louis; William W. bennett. Key West.
Fla: Wellington Cross and wife. NJ. T
Brooke. Cecil Cunningham, Clara Pal
mer, New York City: W. c. DibeIi.
Ketchikan, Alaska: o. W. L. Golfer,
Philadelphia; J. G. Wilson and wife.
Ohio.
Grafton-R. s. Thoms, Miss Elise
Thoms, Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor Holmes.
Joseph Philips, New York; Miss Mary
Beirne, Richmond Va.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
THE KNoCKER.

The Knockef knodn IN church ana stats;.
He hocks the little and the great,
And knocks at home. both long and hte.
The pessimia of miser fate.
Tho knocker knocks with malice elee,
And knocks on esey land and ga;
4 Knocked u the brave and free.
And ever hates pruspczfv.
Ths Knocksf knocks existing ~.
asyw1s lsudly frun HI coyud oaw,
&c. hou1y only hand md nav,
And vusss his jealous nckao AZ.
The Knockrr knocks himself at last,
And into dArkncss soon Is cast.
To an ths azzD piles OF the past.
Wh9s hnouka3 rUt % vils nd 49,
-JoMA S01CU
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
A Wonderful Clock.

The most wonderful clock IN the world
is in st. Petersburg. 1t has ninety-five
faces. It indicates simultaneously ths
time of day at thirty points on the
worlds surface, besides the movement OF
tho earth around the sun. tho places IT
the moon, the signs of the zodiac. ths
passage over the meridian Of more than
fifty stars of the northern Hemisphere,
and the date according to the Gregorian.
Greek, Mussulman. and Hebrew calen-
dars II took two years to put the works
together.-New York American.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
Lenders Donkey show.

London's annual donkey show, held ~
Gently at the Peoples Palace. saw 200
donkeys on exhibition. each OF which. IN
the opinion of his master, was worth
his weight in gold. The Duchess Of Al
bany presented the prizes. the winner OF
the Queens Cup and set Of harness
being Herbert Cockril's Bill. nine-year-
old. valued at 80. Some OF the costers
attracted fully as much attentions as mo
donkeys, owing to their costumes. One
coster hsd 720oo buttons sewed on his
Jacket, trousers, waistcoat and cap
surely as many buttons as any coster
could well carry. Another coster had 5000
buttons. of which 5000 were sewn on his
coat. The work of attaching them had
occupied his daughter nine montha-Ar-
eenank
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

| H.
The income tax law, whose surprises
seem as frequent As they are incon-
venient to those individuals 20 fortu-
nate as to be susceptible of its effects
is discovered to have within its CULVER
an arrow for a quarry hitherto un-
stricken-the man's- club. An inquiry
addressed to the official of the Treas
ury Department charged with the gen
eral administration of the Law elected
this information.
The former corporation excise law
which was re-enacted with modihca.
tons in the income tax law. exempted
from the provision requiring corpora
tons to make returns of their incomes
and outgoes those mot organized for
profit" including social clubs of which
Washington has several very admirable
examples. But among the modifica-
tons was one, perhaps fortuitous but
not on that account the less potential
which constituted an omission of the
phrase mot organized for profit"
Most social clubs are not operated
for profits, pecuniary prosperity usually
being in adverse ratio to sociability in
clubs, if not in other places of human
assemblages. Upon few if any of them,
therefore, would an Income tax actual
ly be imposed. The unusual ineon-
venienoe, however, of having to make
an accounting for social club. as
of a commercial corporation, is some
what distressing and should be dis
pensed with through an amendment OF
the income tax act. An inadvertence,
such as would appea. to have been re-
sponsible for this modification" OF
the former corporation excise law,
should not be allowed to impose an
unnecessary hardship upon one of the
most considerable elements of modern
life.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

OF course, it can't be done, but it
would be a splendid thing for old and
young if the project of the Rev. Will
lam H. Van Allen, of the Church of
the Advent in Boston's exclusive Back
Bay section, could be put into e3ecu-
ton in every community. He advo-
Gates making bonfire in the middle
of Boston Common, using as fuel all
the modern works based on the sex
problem and the so-called white slav-
cry" There is much truth in the Rev.
Van Aliens assertion that such books
arc perverting the minds of a great
many people and causing writings OF
real merit to be forgotten.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

The Mexican revolution may be pro-
longed considerably if Huerta takes
advantage of tip from the front
Villas rebels recently attacked Mon
terey, and, according 20 reliable advices,
the city would now be in their hands
but for the fact that they captured a
brewery some distance out and sus-
pended fighting to dispose of the beer,
When they resumed the federals had
no difficulty in forcing them to an un-
steady retreat. Huerta ought to add
a large supply of malt and hops to
his munitions of war.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

Gov Blease, of South Carolina, now
proposes to empty the State peniten-
tiary of its 400 inmates by pardoning
them before next August. People in
Washington are disposed to laugh at
the antics and utterances of Blease,
but there is really nothing to laugh
about. 1t is moro than possible tina,
South Carolina may send Blease TO the
Senate
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

There are great possibilities in the
enterprise of the Paris dentist who ex-
tracts teeth TO music furnished by a
phonograph, giving his patrons their
choice of records. If the climax of one
of Caruso's frenzied passages be timed
to fraction of the psychological mo-
ment, it ought to express the victims
feelings eloqucntly.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

We read a great many headlines
nowadays, referring to 'free tolls" 1t
cheers us to the hope that the time may
come when we shall have free taxes,
free fares. free contributions TO the
collection plate on Sunday, or even free
tips.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
Morning Smiles.
Just far q ChanGe,

Good gracious exclaimed a vicar as
he met a village laborer YEARLY pulling a
loaded wheelbarrow. lit would be much
easier IL you pushed IT,"
"Daresay," was the answer. but I'm
sick of the sight OF it."-Western Mail.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

There will be another Hague peace
conference next year, if the various
nations can spare the time from their
navy building activities.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

A correspondent wants to know on
which side he should milk a COW. If
she is a kicker he had better get on
the far side.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
NEW JOB FOR PROF. ELLIOTT.
Mrs. Wilson's Brother-in-law May
Head New York City College.

New York, Feb. S-Prof- EDWARD u.
Elliott. of Berkeley, Cal. who was dean
of Princeton University Tor many years,
In being considered ~ the successor to
Or. John H. Finley. Is president OF the
College Of the City Of New York.
Mr.. Elliott Is a brother-in-law Of Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson. having married Sis
ter OF the Presidents wife. He was born
i'm Murfreesbofo, Tenn. and studied al
Berlin and Heidelberg. He also Is au-
thor OF historical woek2
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
tcovrsht, lsli.l

tCopsnsht. lsil
OF the Poets that I prize
He il greatest In my eyes
Who proclaims the gladsomo trutl
Unto Age and unto Youth
Nothing, nothing ever dies,
I, a. I may pass away
From tho present light Of day:
You, a. you may pass. along.
Joining the immortal throng;
But we've been, and 50 must DO
ON through all eternity;
Part and parcel ever Of
An immortal span of Love.
All-embracing as the skies
Nothing, nothing ever diesi
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

. The fact that a man named Slaughter
is promoting the airship race around
the world has moved some people to
laughter.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

And recurring to our Mexican policy,
there are indications that the waiting
NAV soon end, but the watching is get
ting to be more exciting.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
Tompkina and Tennysou

Kindly Hostess Ito nervous reciter who
has broken down in The Charge of the
Light Brigade')-Never mind, Mr.. Thomp-
kins. just tell us 1t in your own words
Punch
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

If Huerta hasn't got pair OF run
ming shoes we advise him to get them
right away.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
Well stuffed.

A patient in hospital had been kept
on low diet for a couple of weeks, and
naturally he longed for a square meal.
One morning the doctor found him so
much better that 1t seemed his appetite
could at last be safely appeased.
do you think you could eat a small
chicken today, Tim?" asked the doctor.
Faith, an OF could, sor," eagerly re-
sponded the patient.
If it's all the same yez." answered
Tim. "oid loik L have ii sthuffed with
another chicken. sor."-Pearson's Weekly.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
The Paramount Question.

First Dogmaniac-So Stella got her
sepation all right?
Second Ditto-Do tell me-who is to
have the custody OF the Pom?-London
Opinion.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
Predatory Commander.

Observation-Disclosures, the Great was no
lover of luxury. In war he ate only the
rations of a common soldier.
Willie-Didn't the poor soldiers get any,
thing to eat at all?-Exchange
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

The Columbia State insists that
streams are feminine, but we think this
is ungallant. All streams get full more
or less frequently.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

Jonah may not have swallowed the
whale, but just look at the way the
Federal League is swallowing the
others.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

The French army will use mules
hereafter instead of horses. Fancy ad-
dressing Missouri mule in French.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

As a rule, those who nave read the
least on the canal tolls problem are
III. most cock-sure in expressing an
opinion on it.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

There is nothing new under the sun,
but YOU can't make woman believe
II when she gets tired of an old hat
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

We suppose it is a good thing for
the human race that some society wom-
en- prefer dogs to children, but it IS
rough on the dogs.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

Many a woman who never suspects
ii shows that she has plenty of back
bone by wearing low-necked gown.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
AZ the Dukes Hunt.

Bill watching his masters guests)-
Rotten bad shot. amt he?
Jim-Yairs. that's why I give i'm blank
cartridges.-Sydney Bulletin.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
New York Hotel Arrivals,

New York, Feb. s.-washingtonians sar-
rived and registered today as follows:
Wallick- York
W. B. Henderson. ]. Hubbard.
Aberdeen W. r. Langdon.
c. E. Kern. Van Cortland
Herald Square F. ]. Butler
+. II. Leonard. Churchill
Hermitage Mrs. b. S. Hay.
c. s. Zurhorst. wood.
Mrs. II. A. Black II. W. Kline.
more. Grand Union
ST. Denis A. c. Titus.
r. ID. Fleming. Algonquin
Mrs. r. d. Flem- J. X. Bascter.
ing c. F. Jenkins.
Bristol Hoffman House
{. j. Toole. l.. NJ. Cantrell.
Empire Navarro
T. W. Taylor. r. L. Smith.
Arrivals from baltimore were: L. b.
Foster, Herald Square; G. r. Ritten-
house, Park Avenue: J. ID. Starr. Grand
NJ. Stuedenwald. Navarro: II. A. Thomas
Grand Union; ". s. n. Carey, Hoffman
House; J. II. Cross. Grand: T. r. Ham
bin. Belmont: II. s. Hunt. Darlington;
Mrs. ii. s. Hunt. Darlington: Mrs. J. II
Smith, Park Avenue; II. A. Tinglcy. Bel
mont: W. ID. Allen. jr.. Marseiiles: Miss
A. L. Dukcr. Woodward: II. l.. Le-
Compile. Pierrpont: c. l.. Mccarthy. Her,
aid SQUARE; Miss l.. Norris. Woodward:
f. ID. Putnam. Martha Washington; J. d.
Silverstein, Herald Square.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

What has become of the old-fash-
toned statesman who used to write tes-
timonials for patent medicines!
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

There is little hope for the man who
believes that every man who is sue
cessful is crooked
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

There is man named Angel living
in Texas, but We don't know what he
is doing there.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
Especially kicking.

There is an East End woman who has
a pretty wit. Also. she has a sense of
humor-and the two are more seldom
found in a combination than you would
suspect. That is what makes her so
companionable to her friends and so i'm
pervious to the venomous darts launched
by her enemies
The other day she was relating an ex-
perience to q group Of callers.
THE cook has left, as cooks do-with-
out notice" she said. And had to get
the dinner myself. / am proud to say
that my husband ate every bit of it,
"And In he still aiiveY asked one of the
ladies present. with sarcastic emphasis.
He is" was the smiling answer. ALIVE
and kicking."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

Dressmakers say the waist line viii
be no higher this year, bu, wen bel
the price will be.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09

If man expects to go very high in
this world he must be on the level.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
A Reasonable Request.

Note received by Kent County rural
teacher: Pardon me for calling your
attention to the fact that you have pulled
Lloyd's right car until II is getting
longer than the other. Please pull his
left ear for awhile, and oblige his
mother."-Grand Rapids Press.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
A Line o Cheer Each Day o
tn Year.
NOTHING DIES.

(written expressly for The Heraldl
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-02-09
SonethinE for Ourselves.

We are In our brst childhood and not
out second. We are young enough to
learn that national strength consists in
having people of differing kinds become
homogeneous; that the measure for na-
tional service Ia not applied along either
religious or racial lines; but that the alb
sorption of all our people in meeting local
problems in a broadly national attitude,
has in II the capacity OF making one ma
ton out of many peoples: and binding
together as brothers the men whom
space divides by thousands Of miles but
whom tho common impulse unites as
neighbors.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-07
coop DYE cAnRAnzA-

The first chief of be Consuutionailst" seems de- termined eliminate himself from the Mexican situation His buster subbomness and pomposty have steadily been alternating the frindshp of America and the loyalty of his fonowers-two thing necessary to any man who aspires to rule Mexico His recent alienation of Gen Villa and Gen. Angeles piece of folly as great his threat war with the United States when we did him the tremendous favor of seizng Vera Cruz from Huera
 It be natural enough for Carranza to be jealous of Villa whose military genius and uniform success have made him the hero of the revolution statesman how ever would swallow his chagrin and a really big man Angeles loyal utilize the abilities of both Carranzas pettiness has driven the bandit general" to take the reins into his hands His brilliant victory at zaca- tecas has raised his prestige higher than ever-and further embittered Carranza The army Is his Two or three such victories, sudden turn of affairs in Mexico City, and he will be in the capital conQueror able to dictate terms and pick the next president
 As for Gen. Felipe Angeles Villas reputed candidate for the presidency his character and ability suggests ne might make rational and efficient executive than Carranza Villa and Angeles in1eed. appear to make an excellent working team. Angeles is gentleman of good birth broad education and thorough military train. ing Villa is brilliant thug evolving into a great sol dier If they hang together and one does the thinking while the other does the fighting Gen. Carranza may find himself discarded the triumph of his own revolu
 on And there will be few gringo regrets over his ef facement if it is accompanied by the establishment of a stable government