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The Washington herald., 1914-12-17

Bryan fears he cannot depend entirely upon
women to elect him President Neither can Pres-
dent Wilson, for that NATTER but in his case he
might reasonably expect some assistance from
men,
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17
Obnoxiou. Presumption.

Why did your sister drop her welfare
work."
While she was ont trying to Uplift
the children of others another welfare
worker came along and tried to uplift
her Children en."-LOuisyille COurier-Jour-
nal
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17
Morning Smiles.
KinShip.

JoyiaI Briton ,espying a member Of the
Scotch GuaTdI-Shake 'ands, oI man
shake andS- I'm half ScotCh-"ther
half-hic-sUda water.-1ondon opinion.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17
DccIsirc ArEument.

The Oracle-Aha, You may depend
upon't that If this ere Kaiser is a-lead-
in Of is troops 'isself. then leadin EN-
{ is; hut II c ain't-wy. then. 'Ow can q
bc sketch.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17
4 Mind'H Fancy.

The wind" said Mrs Twlckemhury.
was blowing at 4 terrific velocipele, -
Christian Register.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17

Around the edge Of the opening in =
new low shoe for women is a coiled wire
spring to prevent il bulginG and to help
retain 1t in place while wearer is dane
ing
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17
A Line O. Cheer Each Day o the Year.

First printing of original poem, written daily
for The Washington Herald
By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.
A FIRESDE FANCY.
look into the ashes and l see
Not ruin, but the former pride OF tree
Whence comes the pleasant glow that warns me
now.
l see and hear the birds upon the bough,
And in the embers' hiss
l sense the summer breeze's soft sweet kiss
That tells again the score
OF peaceful days of yore-
And alrs changed, and here before my eyes
In ash impalpable the tall tree lies,
No longer burgeoning before the sum-
But resting the hearth its duty done
AS Fate hath willed,
A picture fair of Destiny fulfilled!
CCopyrght. Isl4)
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17

Nations have long tended to take toward one
another the attitude OF small boys at first meeting
Constantly they are tempted to measure strength
by fighting. This tendency has developed the sus-
picion among nations which now expresses itself so
wastefully and dangerously in combative arma-
ment
Now there signs OF a change. And one of
the most encouraging signs is the increasing vogue
OF this word, internationasm. 1t has at last been
discovered that, in spite of difference in language
in spite of territorial divisions, human beings are
essentially the same and subjected to essen
TALLY the same social and economical influences
The realization of these influences is creating
not only divisions but bonds.
There is no reason in the world why the men
of different nations should be instinctively un-
sympathetic. On the contrary, there are powerful
reasons why they should unite For the masses of
men, in their common needs, in their struggle for
life and for the development OF the higher faculties
are meeting exactly the problems
The surest way OF solving these problems is not
by yielding to the absurd prejudces fostered by
patriotism, but by recognizing the common hu-
manity of men and the blessings that must result
from their solidarity
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17

Tomorrow DR.. Edwards will tell OF
1.-The Rolling Mill Built by Gen. Sher-
man."
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17

On the other hand, there is no reason in the
world why this sentiment should be encouraged to
take narrow and unworthy expressions Why it
should not be accompanied by a realization that
love Of country is as deepseated in the people of
one nation as in the people of another, just as
sincere, just as beautiful leading to exactly the
same state of mind
Unfortunately, love of country has been en-
couraged at the expense of jealousy of other coun-
tries. In this regard, whole nations have shown a
pettness of mind that would at once be recognized
and condemned in individuals
Many qualities that individuals would hide have
found frank expression in nations through love of
country.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17

There is, of course, something to be said for
mplanting in children the love of country In this
love there is intertwined the ideals of a nation.
Every heart joyously responds to the words:
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead who
never to himself hath said, This is my own, my
native land" This highly rhetorical sentiment
goes down to the very roots of nature Love of
ones native land is a part of oneself. 1t is as
natural as breathing or as protecting oneself from
danger. 1t is one of the many ties and one of the
strongest of the ties by which nature binds us to
the earth
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17

Some theatrical managers are unusU-
ally candid. The Strand Theater can he
placed in this class 1t presents "Frad-
kin. the noted Russian violinist Third
and last week by request"
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17

superiority as something to be rejoiced in, gloat
over.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17

AS boy, like most children l eagerly accept
ed the belief that my country was the greatest
country in the world and that beside it other coun-
tries were comparatively unimportant
/ should have been amazed if any one had told
me that the children of other countries felt about
their countries exactly as l did l thought that,
of course, they recognized the superiority of the
United States
l little suspected that to the children of some
of the great European countries my view would be
regarded as not only untrue but comic
They would have had a surprise exactly like
mine if they knew how American children felt
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17

And speaking of musicians, Several II
the downtown hotels have engaged pi-
anists and violinsts who were formerly
engaged in concert work at $1JO to $40
a week at SO and 50 a week on account
Of the of season. All OF them are play
ing under assumed names.
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17

marriage OF much interest to Wash
ingtonians took place yesterday, when
Mrs. Anna Ford johnson became the
bride Of Mr.. Frank Henry Elsen at the
home OF Mr.. and Mrs. T. a. Wicker
sham, 230l Calvert street. The marriage
occurred at 2:l5, after which Mr.. AMI
The Washington herald., 1914-12-17

Walter Lippmann. one of the editors
Of the New Republic. was invited out
the other morning nv a friend to eat a
'1eisurely breakfast" He ordered a sloc
gin rickey, snails and Philadelphia scrap
pie.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-26

eighteen or Whereabouts, was Chat
terton. Emmett named the terms on
which his epitaph might be written
In the brave days when he was twen-
ty-one."
Slamming the door on history and
sauntering out into the golden light of
the living day, it is a pleasure to re-
fleet that at twenty eight John D. Rock
e.eE> was about as poor and honest as
the rest Of US, and athwart the smoke
wreathed skyline Of Pittsburgh no
prophet could discern the roof of a
Carnegie library. But those are mega
tive views. By way of citing the posi-.
tive, we observe that Tyrus Cobb had
put flashing spike on the home plate
Of Immortality while still under TWEEN
ty-eight
But of arms and the men, and let
tiers and pelf and politics, enough! As
a matter Of fact and justice be it de-
clared that the name of women who
attain their greatest beauty without
ever admitting twenty-eight is legion
and will continue to be-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-26
Use of Tact.

How much trouble mothers. young
and old, would save themselves by
little continuous nursery diplomacy
in other words, tactl 1t Is so much
better to secure voluntary discipline
than to multiply exacting rules.
A reasonable being knows that neg
lect of right-doing brings suffering to
somebody; and how much more use
full it is to develop reason" In a
child's mind than sullen obedienceI
A very successful trainer of her chill
dren never gave utterance beforehand
of what a punishment was to be for
shortcoming. She was accustomed to
say to her children: Don't you think
you had better do thus or SO befora
such a timer" A sort of confidential
leading, this, to the right view of
tfltngs, which comes before obedience
proper, and in most cases dispensss
with It
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-26
COPYRIGHT 1912 BoeBS-MERRu co

oVerbalanced him and sent him
sprawling on his hands into some
wet sticky substance.
Fearful careless housekeeping" he
said as he regained his feet, forces
me TO extreme measure wiping hands
on shirt. No other place to wipe hands.
Renewed necessity arises"-he stop
ped and repeated the phrase with IN
ordinate delight-"renewed necessity
for reaching own room" He caught
the knob as he fell, and the barrier
opened, letting him tumble on his own
motion to the floor. He kicked the
door shut as he lay PROSTATE, and
then managed to pull himself upright
and reach the electric-light button
for Mrs. Moore burned gas in the halls
for economy, but electric lights in the
rooms. The two tumbIes had thrown
him into another state of conscious
ness; his head began to clear and his
motions to steady. So he turned, his
predicament still in his mind, to the
wash-stand in the corner.
Above 1t hung a mirror In passing,
Tommy's gaze swept the glass, leaped
back, caught on what blanched his
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-26
MANY ATTAIN LAURELS YOUNG
Long List of Those Men Who Have
Achieved Fame Before the Age
of Thirty

In his digniied tribute to Perry, for
mer President Taft called attention to
the fact that he hero Of Lake Erie
was only twenty eight when he won
that glorious victory. An interesting
roll might be called of the men who
achieved deathless fame while yet in
their twenties, says the st. Louis Re
public, editortally. First of all, we sup
pose, would be Alexander, who had
vanQuished the world, and for whom
Fate flashed the doleful sign nothing
doing ere yet he was hardly thirty.
The hang of his toga was still mat
ter of vast concern to the foppish
Caesar when he was pushing his tri-
remes across the channel to the chalk
cliffs Of Brittany. At twenty-efght
the youth Of Napoleon was far be-
hind and kings had learned to come
down and personally open the door
when he knocked. Burns was singing
his last songs at twenty-eight and By
ron awoke to acclaim while still
younger. The dead boy in a garnet,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-26
CAREFUL OF HIS OLD DRUM
Head Of instrument Was Made From
the Skin of Sickly Lamb Given
to Him by His Father,

A G. A. R. man who drummed
through the Civil war made the drum
he carried, and has it still. The head
of the drum was made from the skin
of a sheep which was given to him
by his father when it was sickly
lamb. He cured the skin himself,
stretching it on pegs, and while 1t was
drying, he went into the woods, cut
down a rock maple Of the proper size,
and from the trunk cut the hoops, which
he carefully seasoned and adjusted.
The drumsticks were made of hickory,
polished to a satin smoothness by
means of sandpaper and oil No an
cient violin maker ever fashioned his
beloved instrument with greater care
and pride than the backwoods boy did
his drum.
But before he was ready to go to
the front he found that the deadly
"borer" had attacked the hoops and
honeycombed them, and his work had
to be done all over again. This time
he selected sound hickory with better
luck, and the rattle of the homemade
drum was heard in many of the big
battles. and is still heard when the
aged drummer boy turns out with his
few remaining comrades.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-26
SENATE DEFEATS
SUFFRAGE BILL
Resolution Lacks TWo-Thirds
Majority.
NEW PLAN Is PROPOSED
Shafroth Has Amendment Giving the
States the Right to Vote Direct
kentuckian Opposes Amend
ment.
NEW PLAN IS PROPOSED

Washington, March 81 Woman
suffrage advocates lost their fight
Thursday in the United States senate
for resolution proposing an amend
ment to the federal Constitution CIV
ing women the ballot. The vote was
35 for the measure to "a against it,
a two-thirds affirmative vote being re-
Quired for passage.
The amendment offered by Senator
Vardaman OF Mississippi, which pro-
Vided in effect for the repeal Of the
fifteenth amendment to the Constitu-
ton, was defeated, IS to 10. The
amendment to the joint resolution of
fered by Senator Williams of Missis-
sippi, which provided that only white
women should enjoy the right of suf-
frage, was lost, "A to 81.
Immediately after the vote was
taken Senator Shafroth of Colorado
announced that he would offer an
amendment providing that whenever
five per cent of the voters of any state
petttioned for the question of woman
suffrage to be submitted to the voters
the question should be so submitted, in
lieu of an amendment to the state con-
stitution.
Following is the vote in detail on the
resolution that failed of adoption:
For.
Ashurst, Brady, Bristow, Burton, Cham
berlain, Clapp, Clark CWyo), GaIlinger.
Gronna, Hollis, Hughes, Jones, Kenyon,
q \
Nelson, Newlands, Norris, Owen, Perkins,
Poindexter, RansdeII, Shafroth, Sheppard.
Sherman, Smoot, Stephenson, Sterling,
Sutherland, Thomas, Thompson. Town
send. Works-35.
Against.
Bankhead, Borah, Bradley, Brandegee,
Bryan, Catron, Dillingham;, Du Pont,
Gore, James, Johnson, Lee (Md), Lodge,
McCumber, Mclean, Martin, MARITIME,
Oliver, oyerman. Page, Pittman, Pomer-
enc, Reed, Shields, Smith (Ga), Smith
QMd), Smith IS. c.. Swanson, Thornton,
Tillman Vardaman, Weeks, Williams,
West-34.
Senator Lewis of Illinois was absent.
The proposed Shafroth amendment
embodied the plan which has been ad-
vocated by the National Association
for Woman Suffrage through it's con-
gressionaI committee here.
Senator Ollie James of Kentucky as
serted that his state had had one linn
tied experience Of woman suffrage in
local school election. He said on that
occasion ten negro women voted for
every white woman who went to the
polls.
Senators from the suffrage states re-
piled to these arguments by saying
that the question was neither one of
states right nor of expediency, but of
fundamental justice.
The gallery was crowded with Wis
itors as soon as the prospect Of vote
was announced.
Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the
Congressional Union for Woman Suf-
frage, said the union greatly regretted
that the Democratic leaders in charge
of the suffrage amendment in the SEN
ate allowed that measure to be
wrecked, for the time being, by forcing
1t to premature vote.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-26
PLUMAGE CAUSED THE ERROR
NaturaIlsts Have Discovered They
Were Wrong In Idea About New
Zealand Bird.

Since birds freQuenting flowers for
honey or insects are apt to get their
heads covered with pollen, and since
the pollen of different flowers varies
in color, a bird may become yellow
headed, red-headed, blueheaded. etc,
according to season. This circum-
stance led to a curious mistake in the
case of a New Zealand bird, honey
sucker and a hunter Of flowers In
the early summer it visited most fire.
quently the flowers Of the native fax,
and later in the year fed chiefly on
the fuchsia. The pollen Of the former
is red, and of the latter blue. Hence
in the early summer the bird appeared
with a red head and was named the
red-headed honeysucker. But when,
later in the year, 1t vent to the fuch-
STA, its head was stained blue, and it
was called the blue-headed honey
sucker.
Thus for a long time this bird was
thought to be Of two distinct species,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-26
CHAPTER J..
The Bc7rders.

re 6CSF0eFSs
Regarding the events of that rainy
autumn evening at Mrs. Moore's
boarding house in the far West TWEEN
ties of New York, accounts differ
someWhat-although not enough, after
all, but what we may piece together a
connected story. Until the great event,
they were trivial 1t was the reflected
light Of the tragedy which gave them
their Importance
Most Of the boarders remained in
doors, since it was too wet in the
early evening for faring out-of-doors
with comfort After dinner, Miss
Harding and Miss Jones, stenOgra-
piers, who shared a room-and-aIcOVe
on the second floor, entertained com
pany' In the parIor on the ground
foor-twO young offfce-mates who fig
ure but dimIy in this tale. These call
ers came at eight o'clock. a few min
utes later Professor Nou Joined them.
Professor Noll was a diet delusionist.
the assistant editor OF a health-food
magazine. He lived on the third floor,
across the hall from Captain Hanska.
Miss Harding and Miss Jones had
not arrived at that point with their
young men where they wanted to visit
alone. When Professor Nou entered
and suggested music, they welcomed
him. He sat down to the piano, there
fore, and they all sang the foolish
ephemeraI songs Of the picture-shows.
Mrs. Moore stood in the hall for a
time, listening. Once or twice she left
momentarily to look after towels, fur
naCe-heat and other hoUsewifeIy cares.
One of these tours took her to the top
of the house, where Miss EstrilIa, the
lady sick with weak eyes, lived in a
half-darkened room. She was a new
conner, this Miss Estrilla, and not yet
well enough to take her meals in the
diniug-room. Miss Estrilla's brother,
a slim, .mercurial little Latin with an
entertaining trick Of the tongue, was
reading to her by a shaded lamp. as
he often did Of evenings. When Mrs.
Moore rejOined the others. they were
singing full-voice.
On the stairs Mrs. Moore met Cap
tain Hanska passing up from his late
e%AA@A DDAALeAA hA4iuGl 41S NClo d lilLIC
irregular about meals; and this eve
ming he had come in, demanding din
ner, after everything was cleared
away. Half the clearinghouse liked
Captain Hanska, and half disliked
him. Rather (and more accurately
all half-liked and half-hated him.
Before he started up the stairs he
paused an instant at the parlor door
and looked upon the singers.
Come on in-the waters fine!"
called Miss Harding iocularly.
Captain Hanska returned no answer
Apparently one Of his sardonfc gibes
was on his lips. but he let it die there
And he turned away.
He can certainly be a crouch when
he wants to-" said Miss Harding, as
though apologizing to the young men.
'FierceI" exclaimed Miss Jones.
And they resumed their singing. As
Captain Hanska passed Mrs. Moore
on the lower flight of stairs, his head
was bent and he gave no sign of rec
ognition.
Mrs. Moore did not leave the par
lor, she testified afterward, until Mr.
Lawrence Wade called, asking for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-26
DECLARE KELLEY'S ARMY
Is BACK OF REVOLT
Planned to Capture Arsenal at Rock
Island, III.-Report Is Sent to
Washington.

Sacramento, Cal, March 19.-In a
report to the war department in Wash
ington Adjutant General Forbes Of the
National Guard of California has Off
cially recognized an alleged plan Of
General Kelley's unemployed army
to seize the federal arsenal at Rock
Island, H., in order to equip an army
of 100000 men with arms and ammuni-
ton for a revolution.
General Forbes report is based on
one made to him by Lieut.. Franklin
Grimes Of a Sacramento company Of
the state guard, who joined Kelley's
army as a hobo several days ago while
acting as a spy on behalf of his chief.
Lieutenant Grimes with a wealth
Of detail told how he had gained the
confidence Of the leaders of the I'M
employed. who divulged to him their
plot for capturing the United States
government. There was to be a gath
ertng of many armies at Chicago, 40
cording to Grimes, the men reaching
that city as best they might. The
leaders, according to the militia spy,
believed they could assemble 100000
men at Chicago. Then, moving in
force, they would attack and capture
the arsenal.
Railroads out of Chicago would be
Communicated, said the lieutenant,
and the unemployed force, we'll
armed, would be rushed toward Wash
ington, where it would at once have
the federal government at its mercy.
There would then spread nation
wide rebellion Of workingmen against
employers of labor, which would de-
pose all civil and military authorities,
and install the army's leaders as su-
Dreme.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-26
COULDN'T SHAKE HER LOVE
Certain Considerations Induced Fair
Creature TO Be Magnanimous
and Forgive.

The time has come for me to
speak" he said, going over to the
mantelpiece and leaning his head alb
stractedly against the cold marble.
My dear. before we are married,
and while there is yet time to pause,
my conscience bids me tell you about
myself i have deceived you. l am
not the noble-hearted, unselfsh, rein
ed and altogether desirable man you
have been led to believe
q have deceived you even about
myHge.
Not only am l 40 instead Of 81, but
I am widower l stay out late at
night when I feel like il. I smoke all
sver the house, am particular about
my meals, find fault all the time,
blame the servants, never go anywhere
to oblige anyone else. drink more than
l ought to. and, in fact, am a vulgar,
disagreeable. gruf, inhospitable, irri-
table. inconsiderate, insuterable nui-
sance"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1914-03-26
AROUND THE
CAMPO s. IN
FIRE Gg&z::A2gA
FIRST SHOT AT GETTYSBURG
letter From rigadier-GeneraI Cutler
to the Governor of Pennsylvania
Praise for Officer.

Apropos of the opening of the battle
OF Gettysburg, the National Tribune
publishes the following from Gen. Ly.
sander Cutler:
headquarters, First Division, First
Corps, Nov. Is, 1868.
10 the Governor of PENNSYLVANIA:
In noticing in the papers today an
account of the proposition for a. ma.
tlonal cemetery at Gettysburg for the
men that fell there in July last I am
reminded that have neglected a duty
which l owe to one of your regiments.
the Fifty-sixth, and its brave com.
mander, Col. J. William Holman. That
regiment is in the Second brigade OF
this division, and was at that time
under my command 1t was my for
tune to be in the advance on the morn.
ing of July l. When we came upon
the ground in front OF the enemy Col
onel Hofmann's regiment (being the
second in the column) got into a posi-.
ton moment sooner than the others,
the enemy advancing in line of battle
within easy musket range. The at
mosphere being a little thick, l took
out my glass to examine the enemy
being a few PAGES in rear of Colonel
Hofmann. He turned to me and in
CURED, rs that the enemy?" My re-
ply was, Yes" Turning to his men
be commanded: Ready! Right
oblique! Aim-fire!" and the battle of
Gettysburg was opened. The fire was
followed GY other regiments instantly.
Still, that battle on the soil of Penn.
sylvania was opened by her own sons,
and it is just that it should become a
matter of history. When Colonel Hof-
mann gave the command "Aim!" /
doubted whether the enemy was near
enough to have the fire effective, and
asked him if he was within range. Not
hearing my question, he fired, and |
received my reply in a shower of rebel
bullets, by which many of the coloneIs
men we're killed and wounded. My
own horse and those of two Of my
staff were wounded at the same time.
Il desire to say to your excellency
that the Fifty-sixth is one Of the very
best regiments in the service, and that
Colonel Hofmann is. without qualifica-
ton, one of the best officers, brave,
faithful and prompt, and most excel
lent disciplinarian. l most earnestly
hope that his faithful services may be
suitably rewarded
l hope, also, that you will cause
proper measures to be taken to give
that regiment the credit, which is their
due, of having opened that memorable
battle. Very respectfully, your obedi-
ent servant. Cutler, Brigadier Gen
eral.