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The Washington herald., 1914-01-20
FORMER DISTRICT
HEAD DIES At S3
Lennon G. Hine Succumbs
to Pneumonia in Battle
Creek Sanatorium.
GAVE AWAY MISFORTUNE
One-time Commissioner Was Known
as Philanthropist and Discoverer
of Ottmar Mergenthaler.
GAVE AWAY HIS FORTUNE

After an illness of many weeks. former
District Commissioner l.. G. Hine died
at Battle Creek, Mich, yesterday noon
Pneumonia was the immediate cause OF
his death, news of which was received In
Washington by members of his family
living here. The body will be brought
here for burial.
In the death OF Mr.. Hine the Capital
loses a philanthropist. for he was known
the country over for his charitable work.
His death recalls how he befriended and
brought to the front Ottmar Mergenthaler,
inventor of the linotype machines, the
advent of which revolutionized the news
paper and publishing world.
When Mergenthaler was but a hard-
working machinist in the employ OF the
Hall Machine Works in Baltimore, FORM
er Commissioner Hine learned OF his ef-
forts to build a typesetting machine.
Brainy men and world inventors laughed
at the idea of the machinist to build a
machine to do the work he expected OF
IT. But Commissioner Hine befriended
him and financed his efforts. Mergen-
thaler then startled the world by his
great invention, making 1t possible Tor
newspapers to print great editions quick
Iy, accurately, and with a tremendous
saving of time and labor. Some OF Mer-
genthaler's early patents he assigned to
Commissioner Hine in appreciation OF his
friendship. Mr.. Hine was the nrst presi-
dent of the Mergenthaler Company, the
stock of which has risen from almost the
begging point to a high price. He was
president of the National Topographic
Company which merged with the Mer-
eenthaler Company.
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FINANCE COMMITTEE TO MEET.
Board of Trade Body to Consider
Truesdayy Report.

AFacsuhys heport.
The municipal finance committee Of the
Board of Trade will meet this afternoon
at o'clock. Col. George TruesdeIl.
chairman, will present the report for ac-
ton of the committee before presenta.
ton to the annual meeting of the board
tomorrow night.
Odell S. Smith, chairman. has called
a special meeting of the public order COM
mittee Of the Board of Trade for Thurs
day afternoon at o'clock Representa-
tive Kahn, of California, will discuss the
National Guards of the country, and
especially OF the District.
The membership committee of the
Board Of Trade will meet tomorrow aft
ernoon at ! o'clock.
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ferers. personally taking charge Of the
work. A large sum was collected.
In 1865 he came TO Washington from
Ohio. From 1853 to lS5 he practiced law
and twice was president Of the local Bar
Association. During the early days Of the
Metropolitan Club he was president and
under his administration the club greatly
prospered and its membership grew into
the hundreds.
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Local Temperatures,

Midnight, 30; . . N. .: q n. .; 6 q m .;
. m. %; 10 q. m. e: Il noon, IS; .. m, %;
p. m. e: p. m. q; p m. %; 10 p m. "a
Highest g; lowest, =.
Relative humhity-s q m. %; 2 p. m, 81: 9
D. m. %. Rainfall q p m. to p. M, T. Hours
Of sunshine. rs. Per cent Of possibl esunshine 8
Tsmpe1ture same date last yar-Hshest, S.;
lowest. ..
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Fuel oil consumption by the United
States Navy last year 10 estimated at
D. 100000 gallons.
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violets. Roses, Sweet Peas, and 0rchias
Shaffer's New Store. 500 18th st.-Ady
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@Jephthah's Daughter. with Constane
Crawley and Arthur Maud. virgini,
today. Friday. "Kathlyn." I'd part
Adv.
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Tide Tables.

Tide Tables.
ruday-Lov tide sss q N. and 80 p n
hisA TIA IN Q. =. and II p n
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Temperature. In Other Citie.

Temperatures In other cities, together with the
anoupt Of rainfan for the twsnty-four hours ended
at p m. yesterday, are a. follows:
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Appointed by Harrison.

Mr.. Hine was eighty-three years old.
and, until a few weeks before his
death, enjoyed remarkable health. He
went to Battle Creek. Mich. for treat
ment at sanatorium there Tor
growth in his head. Several weeks ago
he contracted pneumonia
President Harrison appointed Mr..
Hine as Democratic commissioner in
1883. Hine took office May 1s. 1883,
and served until October i, 1890. While
commissioner he started fund for
the relief of the Johnstown flood SUI
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-01

bris falls into sluiceway where it
is washed by water dropping down
from the higher planes OF the mine
After the water has drained off the
sediment is searched for emeralds
IT was out OF such gravel that tho
Duke OF Devonshirc. the most valu-
able single emerald ever found was
taken. That stone weighed little
over half pound; it was about two
inches long and averaged two inches
in thickness. Another fine stone which
came from Colombia is the Hope emer-
aid. which weighed six ounces.
The MuZo group of mines Is now
turning out over 100000 carats OF
emeralds per annum. OF these about
$4,000 carats arc of the first class and
about 500, 600 of the second class, while
there are others of the third and
fourth classes. There is n new group
of mines now being worked which IL
is believed will yield 100000 worth of
emeralds per year
Copyright, 1919, by Frank G. Car
pentcr.)
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sea. The river is nnr,gable for this
whole distance. with the exception of
short stretch of rapids The copper
there is In low mountains bordering
the stream. and the mining engineers
say II can be worked at profit
The emerald mines OF Colombia are
said TO be the richest Of the whole
world. They belong to the state. and
are worked through concessions or
leases According TO the law, private
parties are now prohibited from claim
ing any emerald they may discover
and those which have been already
found can only be worked by paying
the government S60.000 year from the
time the mining begins.
The best emerald mines at present
are those OF Muzo. about seventy Ave
miles from Bogota. Here the stones
have been deposited in the bowl of an
extinct volcano. They are dug out
OF the crater by laborers, who break
the lava along fixed line. uncovering
the trail of green quartz that contains
the crystals. This quartz is then talk
en- out with great care. The gems are
extracted from the matrx and the de-
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MY. Autobiography" s; s. Mcclure
.s1stoSs. EdSs a. A Mess wsesS '
4he 's sanrlss Glr et SsninssSy Dawson
The Salamnnder." Owen johnson
Cover designed by Clarence F. Underwood.
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Our Barburous Penal System" Julian
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What the Law Presumes" Richard Mat
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Sr "TSo Car ara and His Family winthrop
:'rhe Poster Campaign Against Alcohol"
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Children in Paintings" Clayton Hamii-
Where the Theatre Falls Short" Bran
The Senses and Modern Life" Gilbert
Our Fifteen Years Work In the Philip
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The Colossal Growth OF tho Savings
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Dry Cleaning tho Drama" Burns Mantle.
''Imperishabie Fiction" Richard lie Gal
SHORT STORIES:
"laria of the Halls" Coraiie Stanton and
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"A Matter of Half a Million Tom Mas
'''rhe wedding Bob Dean Ran" Edward
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The Ends OF the Earth" Frank Condor.
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intimate silences." by Charles Hanson
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THE Audit" by Aloysius Coll.
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The City" by Mary l.. Bray.
The Hardest Thing" by Wanda May.
Back From Panama" by Richard Butler
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ism. John Mitchell
Letters of Woman iIomestcader"
H%rse Thieves Fillmore Rupert stewart
!he inoNorctcd Reactions of Traveller
I'm Egypt" Jane Addaius
Evening Prayer" 90 poem Hermann
The LADY OF, Lander Lane "a story.
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"COncise Standard Dictionary"
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Concise Standard Dictionary" a COM
pact little volume OF $40 pages
The book contains about $4,000
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! seems safe 10 indorsc the statement OF
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By Grace Macgowan Cooke and
Caroline Wood Morrison. The Cen
fury Company SIZE net
Two cousins in an old-fa honed VIII
lage in William, too care
fully and correctly trained by a doting
mother and Bill, wisely allowed 10 run
half wild as real boy-supply the
material for this pure comedy OF boy
hood.
And il is all true boyhood. from
broken windows and consequent
flights. games and fights. school tasks
and bit of hcroism natural To any
high spirited boy, to the exquisite
humor of the boys first formal call OF
the girls.
Furthermore. it is all good reading
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"rhe After House

by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Hough-
ton Miiiin Company Sl.25 net.
Rather gruesomc is this mystery
story OF Mrs. ineharts. but ii UNI
QUESTIONABLE is mystery story in
which no solution OF the crimes that
form it's basis is even suggested until
the very cnd. And yet the bare facts
of the crimes. as known 10 all save
their perpctrator. are related and dwelt
upon with more than common clear
ness
The story Is told in tho first person
by young doctor, who ships on Mar
shall Turner's sailing yacht as a sort
Of general utility man. but who early
In the cruise is forced to take com :
mand OF the yacht. Whom only q few
mate mysteriously disappears. and
three days later a triple murder is
committed The captain of the yacht,
guest and maid are all killed with
an az.
Suspicion falls upon pretty much
everybody on board. and carefully de-
ceptivc clues confuse the readers mind.
gate the yacht. and the wretchcd and
frightened party accepts his offer
whcreupon the return journey 10 New
York begins.
The doctor has his troubles; compli-
cations pile on complications, and the
with every page. They put in at Phila-
delphia. and the first mate, the prob
able murderer. is put on trial a de-
tailed account OF the proceedings is
given. followed by the discovery of the
murderer.
The After House" is inecniously
constructed and it's interest Is clevcrly
sustained. all OF II save the love story
portion. which is perfunctory. If not
pittinG.
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MONTHE REVIEWERS TABLE WIZ
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morist. mounted on the Rosinante Of
morality and masquerading as. Don
Ing kind. which vanished with the last
a w1s p ben fSs anS
claiming truth with whine; when 1t
! breaches most earnestly, IL laughs
loudeSt.
scriprion of the novel. readers will UNI
< derstand that Mr.. Chcsterman had In
mind something more than a mere fan
ia asS !Hng 70 ,he pont Of bnriese
and humorous CHIEFLY in It's quality OF
cNaEgeration, while its hero has some
ness of one of w ]. Locke's creations.
but beyond all this Il is lance of
satire barbed with ridicule, and aimed
at some of the fads of the moment in
England.
The main theme of the story, from
which its title is derived through easily
distinguished steps, is the temperance
movement with its resulting diminu-
tion OF the number OF licenses, but there
aic also lesser and more laughable
manifestations of the worlds unrest
which the author tits Negetarianism,
model communicative the desire for
money NJ the back of their establish
ment-and Il sort of Islam Worship. un-
known TO us in this country. all come
in for their share of Chestertonian
ridiculc.
IL
radical law aimed at inns contained
what we call Joker" which slipped
in through inadvertence, not by inten-
tion and which permitted alcoholic
liquors to be sold upon any premises
before which stood an old tavern sign.
Taking advantage of this slip Captain
Dalroy. an irIShman who mad been
King OF Ithaca. and his friend, an inn
keeper, whose hosiery had been closed
by the lord of the manor under some
other provision of the law, simply took
away with them the sign of The ship
and went a-gypsying through theehigh-
ways and bywayS of England, setting
UP their welcome sign swherc their
fancy babe them.
They were particularly careful TO
tread on the noble toes of the author
and patron OF the act under which they
conducted The Flying lnn," not only
because he was responsible for the
absurd law. but because Captain Dalroy
had his own good reasons for hating
him. Only short time before. this
pestiferous courtesy peer had sided
with the cmissary of Turkey against
palroy when. as King of ithaca. he
was concluding peace negotiations
with the ottoman Empire. subject to
the approval OF England and Germany.
The phrase, full of Chestertonian
paradox, epRram and wit" has at
tanned the dignity Of quotation marks,
but il applies TO this whimsical book.
even though its whimsy does eNtenu
through more than 900 pages.
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But before j go farther let me tell
you just where Colombia is and some
thing of what it contains. II is just
across the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf
of Mexico. The shortest distance be-
tween ii and our country is not far
! as from Philadelphia to Chicago. Tam
pa. Fla, is as near to Cartagena as New
| York Is to St Louis. and from that
Colombian port to New Orleans is only
| four days easy steaming. From Bar
renquilla to New York is less than
1900 miles. and the trip can be easily
made in five days. BY way of the
| canal. Boston can reach the west coast
OF Colombia by steaming n little over
1000 miles, and the whole OF this coast
is nearer our Atlantic scaboard than
any part of Pacific North America.
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OL0MllBIA
AND PANAMA
CONTINUED on Sixth Page.)

CONTINUED on Sixth Page.)
United States, because they think Uncle
Sam took advantage OF them in regard
to the Panama Canal 1t is very much
a question whether they nave been
equitably treated, and 1t will pay the
United States to make treaty, with
such terms as Will satisfy them The
Hon. James r. Du Bots. our last min
lister to Colombia, had such negotiations
we'll under way before the present ad.
ministration came in, and IL they can
still be contaminated 1t Will be of great
benefit 10 the two republics. 1t would
also improve our standing with all of
the other South American countries.
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35-in Chiffon Tafeta, S1.5O yd

a much desired silk, especially
in these beautiful shades, viz:
navy, royal and ligAt blue. pink,
brown, turquoise, champagne.
emerald, wisteria and heliotrope,
in the solid colors.
Also very large assortment of
the most desired combinations in
two-toned. effects. such as black
and navy. Copenhagen and black.
amethyst and black. navy and
green, tan and white, tan and re-
seda and turquoise and lavender.
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The natives Of Colombia claim tina t
they will some day have the greatest
copper producing country of the world.
Copper ores are now found in five diff
fcrent states, and there are important
copper deposits righ< on the Magda :
lena River about $50 miles from the
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the mountains Of the Choco and Antio-
quia Provinces. and in the ranges be-
This area covers thousands OF square
miles, and gold is said to he found
wherever Their. 10 gravel Back In the
mountains. where the rock has been
laid bare, there are gold veins every
where that require only modern ma
chinery and methods for the extraction
of the metal. Much of this territory
has never been explored, except by
the Indians. There is also gold in the
department of Narino, bordering on
Ecuador, and gold nuggets are found
in the gravel beds of all the rivers Of
that section which flow into the Pacific
Ocean.
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And then look at the size of the
country. Colombia has n coast line OF
about zoo miles on each ocean. From
south to north il is longer than from
New Orleans TO st. Paul, and from east
to west In places il is wider than from
all the Atlantic Coast States. with Ohio
and West Virginia added. 1t is nine
times the size of New York and ten
times as big as Kentucky. IT is big
ger than Germany. France, Holland and
Belgium combined, and notwithstand-
ing it Is almost on the equator. the
most OF the land Is so high above the
sea that white men can live in II and
the soil will produce crops that have
steady market in Europe and in North
America.
Colombia has pasture lands which
may make 1t one of our future sources
of meat One-half of the whole re-
public consists OF plains that slope
down to the Amazon and OrInoco
Rivers. and these are now Using
something like 100000 catt.e The
Cauca Valley alone could supply enough
chocolate to glut the markets of the
! world, and there are extensive regions
along the Caribbean fitted for coffee.
| On the lowlands OF this coast the
United Fruit Company now has vast
plantations of bananas. the product of
which 1t is shipping TO England and
! the United States. The exports run
| into the millions of punches n year. and
they are carried away to New York in
| steamers of 5000 tons. each having
sengers. They have steamers to Flu
rope which make the run in about four
| teen days.
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Women's New Spring Suits
'eu Ideas in Materials and StuZes

There's SO much originality about the New
Suits this spring-at least the Mosby styles
can lay claim to this virtue
Short Coats are all the rage, and everything
runs towards fancy trimming of some kind
There are Plain Tailored Suits to be sure.
but braids, tassels, laces and fancy silks are
used with remarkably telling effect in beauti-
flying the spring creations
The Coats have threequartcr and full length
slceves-some in kimono style; others set in.
The new ripple effect around the bottom is
seen on many of the coats
The materials are duvctyn, gabardine, nov
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-01

understand that there are valuable
deposits OF petroleum on the northern
coast of Colombia. In coming to Pan
anna, Travelled With a Californian who
! owns tract of 10000 acres not far
from Cartagena. He says that 1t is
underlaid with oil. and that there is
oil all along the coast and here and
there throughout the West Indies.
| This man has been all over South
! America investigating the oil fields.
| He tells me that our sister continent
| has probably more petroleum than we
| ever had, and that the most of 1t is
/ yet to be exploited He describes the
oil fields Of Colombia as being SO close
| to the seaboard that the oil can be
easily piped into the steamers So far,
| the country Is undeveloped. but Ameri
| can oil men have been coming in, and
! a thirty-ycar concession has been
! granted to tract of oil field 100
F.! miles long and sixty miles. wide in the
! department Of Santander. The owners
I have agreed to work this field and 20
put one or mere refneries. and the
government has promised to admit free
Of duty all necessary materials. Ar
rangements are now being made for
an oil refinery and warehouse at the
port Of Cartagcna
The mineral possibilities of Co
lomba correspond with those Of
Alaska. 1t was there that Balboa
found his first gold. when the Indians
told him OF the treasures over the
mountains that We're afterward OPEN
cd up by Pizarro Since that day more
than $700,0o0.000 worth of gold has
been taken out cf Colombia. and there
are mnos In half dozen different
states which nre now paying well.
The great collaborating regions are In
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-02-01
Lovely Silks That Hint of Spring
Tub Shifting Silks, $l.OO yd

Tub Shifting Silks, $l.OO I'D
The new styles for spring are
here-32 and SO inches wide, en-
bracing all the desired stripes In
black, green, heliotrope, brown
and light blue.
36-in Silk Serge, $l.50 yd
Black, ivory. navy, brown, wis
terra, Copenhagen and Burgundy.
Soft in te1ture-rich in color
effect
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Ladies' High Shoes

$500 to $500 values .$2.O8
$500 to $3.50 values. >. ST. OS
$500 to $500 values. j. :. $2.25
These are all the very latest
styles.
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An extra heavy weave in this
very popular silk
Good assortment OF shades, in
Guiding ivory, salmon, duck blue,
wisteria, plum, Kings blue, navy,
wine and old rose.
4O-in Faille Charmeuse, $3.50 yd
Soft and rich; admirably
adapted for the present style
gowns; taupe, dahlia. navy, Co
penhagen and black.
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under me to be q whisky bar'L I amt
goin' to step from no pork barl into
eternity. And I want We to send back
to nlinoy fur my brother-in-law. He allua
said I'd be hung. and / want him yere
to see the fun. And I want to know
how my graves to be fixed up, ana
what's goin' to be said on the heads
board"
Prisoner" said the judge. after look
ing him over. ''ain't We piayin' this crowd
low DOWN."
I'm a-playin' my own hand" was tha
retort.
This yere case was left to the joory,
and the joory brung ye in guilty. but as
jedge Of this court I'm goin' to make q
change. Jim Trueman. We won't hana
ye."
But I've rights"
Cant help 1t. The verdict is that -
pack up and skip"
'T refuse. It's my right to be hungs
and III stand by my rights"
mo use, Jim; we've got to 60 This
yers camp o. Golden Flats hangs q man
fur fun and not fur hard work. II does
1t to obleege. and not out o. rights In the
case. I thought 1 knowed We before, but
I didn't. We ar a blamed mean and
over-pertickler kuss. and this crowd kim
be Jest as mulish as ye ar. The hangin'
is on. and IL we don't leave camp within
two hours we'll roll ye down hill in al
bar'l"
Jim growied. and kicked and quotedi
law, but the boys were nrm. and at sum,
down Golden Flats knew him - mer&