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thrift to the railway magnates," says ! the Post Dispatch. Certainly not, the railway magnates have practiced thrift in the conduct of their person ai affairs until they became railway magnates and no longer need to be thrifty. It is the wage-earner who
 must practice thrift if he is ever to attain a like comfortable situation.
 It is a matter for comment that the aliens who locate in the United States as a general ru1e are more successful than the native-born Amer ican. This is not because the alien excels the native in earning capacity, for as rule he does not. It is be- cause the alien is more thrifty than the native.
 Thrift is the wage earner's only means of attaining comfort in old age, and a powerful journal like the Dispatch might better use its efforts in promoting thrift than sub jecting to ridicule those who are endeavofing to inculcate the spirit among free-spending, living-beyond- their-means Americans.
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great stuff. It is certainly doing us all heap of good, as Ike Thompson remarked when he bought a case Of Peruna Let us get in behind the up- lifht and help lift the other fellow out of the bog.
 The uplift has taught us the hein- ousness of kissink babies. Even the uneducated now know that it is awful to kiss a girl baby over 60. Before the uplift goto us to going right about kissing babies probably millions of us stood on the brink of damnation be- cause we didn't know about the per nicious insanitariness of this practice.
 The uplift has grabbed us by the hair just as we were going down the third time in the foul morass of get ting used to our wives sticking around home a few hours one day in the week to get acquainted with the children.
 The uplift has saved us from the sin of eating anything we want to eat and from drinking anything at all.
 The uplift guides our every step. In communities where you can often kill man and get away with it without even fine, it is jail offense to cross the street except at geometrical right angle to the curb at certain point.
 The uplift has reformed the apostles creed and has it's eye on the Sermon on the Mount.
 It will teach the auorora borealis not to flicker and show the milky way how not to sprawl over the firma- nent
 It will regulate the size of the cup of coffee we drink for breakfast-if it lets us drink any-and it will jack up St. Peter for not properly polish ing the jasper gates of the New Jerusalem.
 Bully for the uplift. It's got us go- ing to beat the band on the upgrade for the millennium. Already we are almost in sight of the shining mina- rets of Altruria, the blessed city where everybody sits up nights to tend to everybody else's affairs, and no man beholds law descending sun without somebody else's business done.
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THRIFTY WASHERS.

UHtier this heading, the St. Louis Post Dispatch cAides the Society for Thrift for asking an appropriation of $5O.0O0 from the federal government, saying:
 The Society for Thrift-one of those aambef1ess organizations creat- ed, to :pfOvide means for living with out real vork-iS asking congress for $50, ,O00 of &he peoples money to spend in railroad fares and hotel bills for its members to enable them to hold an International talk-fest at San Ffakcisco next year.
 This society has for some months been Aendine costly circulars and pamphlet tO the newspapers on the sub1ecl ,sWppOsed No be dear to it's helrt. The newspaper man who re ceives them, being of a thrifty turn of mind. hates to see so much labor time and money expended oI futil- fly. Ki0wine. that those who want to he thrifty will De. and that those who doa't want to or cannot prac- tice thrift can't be preached inte dOfng A6 he consigns the thrift liter ature t6 the waste basket and turns to something more practical
 The thrift literature does no preach thrift to railway magnates who sadly need, it. Of course it re fraips from suggesting thrift tt those who. by practicing thrift a other ueopae's expense have accumu lated 'tsfn<ed" millions. It's messag, is ste nc masses who can. as things 70. bafSly mske ends meet. Wh! abnuid tie taxpayers give it $50.O0o tt ealliv3nt to San Francisco and re psat this lecture.
 Only casual reasoning might lead tosthe conclusion that the esteemed Postsp pispatch is correct. but if mil .liohs in wealth can be added to the sayipst q tlse neople by the expendi- tures of &se 0oe cv rao-e fn adn>stiora Il woFk, at is ; scod investment The Society for Thrift a.does not Spreach n
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iINE BLUFF
 ROGREss ! iRosPERITY
RIVER ANNEXATION

Lhtae Rock business men are twakenihg to tho need of profitfng tron the transportation facilities of- iered by the Atkansas river, and are esndejaSoring to launch "a movement for ihe estabiishment of a boat line Iron that city to the Mississippi. They have been impelled to renewed effort by thes ann onncement that the powsrfui sand-dredgss,, built and to be operated in the Arkansas by the fede9sf government will begin work sooA.
 Pine Bluff has enjoyed the advant- aSssof river transportation facilities right along through the progressive nest of few men who have operat- cd. [ steamer between this city and the Mississfppi. With the removal Of the sand bars. 50 as to insure river navieation at all seasons than Pint Blnff no city will enjoy greater ad- vanteges in water transportation.
 ThE possession of freight rates Is ! powerfuY factor not only in the sue cess Of the individual tradesmen of the community but in the success of the city as a whole; a great leverage for the wide-awake Chamber of Com merce officials in talking business to . manufacturer who is considering the establishment of factory or the removal of one already established.
 Pine Bluff win be glad to aid the Little Rock boat line with all pat, rona9e it's own line Is not prepared t handle. and 1t is just possible that Pine Bluff men may be induced te aid ia financing the proposed new line. Pine Bluff is not jealous oi Little Rocks success, for it is sue < ceedlng. and like all successful towns desires to sec others succeed ant progress.
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 dcg's brains out. s--Yhis incident led many years later, when Roosevelt was police commissioner of the city, to the abolition of the destable police station lodging house system at Riis 'instigation.
 :anters Newspaper Work.
 Finally Riis got position with a news gathering association. It is said that he had not eaten forNhree days at the time, and luckily, his first assignment was the old Guards ball. He filled his stomach. Probably he never went hungry again, for he rose rapidly in the newspaper field. He pointed out the evils of New York's slums, and fought for better tenement house laws. He began to lecture and
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Greatest of all Ocean Liners Buffetted
 About by Wind and River Tide

These photographs of the Hamburg
 - American liner Vaterland, the largest ocean liner in the world, were made on the arrival of the big ship in New York, at the end of her maiden voy- age across the Atlantic. The lower photograph gives an idea of the great length of the big vessel, which measures $50 feet over all. The up per photograph was taken from the upper deck of the vessel. while fleet of thirty tugs were struggling to get the leviathan into her berth in the north river. Because of the strong tide and steady wind the vaterland was manoeuvred for more than three hours before the tugs fin- ally succeeded in nosing her into the slip. The Vaterland maintained an average speed of "A miles an hour during the 3,200 mile trip. Copyright by International News Service.)
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OUR DEAD HEROES

There is. a good deal of harmless sentiment being wasted over the fact that among, our soldiers who died ill Mexico there was an Irishman, a German.t aFrenchman and Jew. We'll what of 1t? i
 If there hadn't been a fair sprink- Ting of Germans, their absence would have been remarkable, for a very large percentage of the people of the
 United States bear German surnames and have borne them since long be- fore Steuben fought for rour inde- pendence.s #ss- Theresis nothing new about men oi French ancestry fighting under the
 American flag. Lafayette was by nc means the first. and the percentage Fof French names on the muster rolls of our armies has kept fair pace witt
 the proportion of our French popula
 tion. ss@ &Ses
 It is no new thing and nothing tt get excited over that one of oir deat soldiers was Jew. The Jews hay, contributed as many soldiers ant sailors to ours armies and navies al the Methodists. the Presbyterians o lthe Catholics in pfoportion to theil numbers. 5aa
 As for dragging about an 1rishmal
 being among the dead, you might a!
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we'll get sentimental about the day being lighter than the night. There was a chance for a fight, and there fore there were plenty of Irish stick ing around where somebody was bound to "get hurted."
 If there hadn't been Irish, French, Dutch and Jews among the dead it would have meant that the black troops were the only ones to get into the danger zone.
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PRESS OPINIONS
4 STORY OF COwARDIcE.
(Indianapolis News.)

.Melfen swore that the total cost to the New Haven of the Westchester property was $35,OOO,OOO. Much of the stock was held by members of the Tammany gang. Thus it is clear that though this road had president and board of directors, it was abso- lutely controlled by Morgan, it's bank CT. Mellen, speaking of Morgan's dic- tatorship, says that he can recall no case in which he (Morgaan) did not have his way" It is disgusting story of cowardice and mismanage-
 ment. Men who should have been the
 servants of the stockholders were the slaves of Morgan, and they all stood
 in "awe" of him. They did not even to dare ask hi mhumbly for informa-
 tion, which they were not only en. titled to, but which they were in duty bound to acquire. It is this sort of control from which the people of the land have determined to free the railroads. j. THE UPLIFT.
 Beaumont Enterprise.)
 Let us appreciate the uplift. It's
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-27

Posing as beggar on a Third ave- nue corner in New York a police in- spector collected S5 cents an hour and found that of eleven contributions re- ceived in thirteen minutes, nine were from women of the pooper classes. J The New York World remarks on "the amount of real charitable work done by the poor and the Pittsburg Dispatch asks if it is "real charity' to give money to fake beggar.
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His best known book was How the Other Half Lives"
Meeting of Noted Doctors.

Baltimore, Md, May 26.-About three hundred delegates from every part of this country and Canada are now in this city attending the annual convention of the American Med;co- Psychological Association, which opened today. These delegates repre-
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to write magazine articles.

to write magazine articles. He himself considered his greatest work the creation of Mulberry Bend park. This park is situated on what was once the center of the worst slum district in New York. Many blocks of buildings were torn down to make room for it.
 Loses Wife; Marries Secretary. Riis was of lovable and sentiment al nature. He married that sweet heart whose lock of hair was in the stolen lOcket. He idealiZes her in his autobiography. After more than a quarter of century of married life she died. Four years later, Riis sur prised all his friends by the an l nouncement of his engagement to ] Miss Mary A. Phillips, young social worker who had acted as his secre- tary He was about half his age. They were married July 30, 1907.
 Riis' health then failed. First he was forced to give up active newspa- per work. Then he purchased a big farm at Barre, Mass, and spent much of his time there. He became ill while on a lecture tour and went to sani- tarium in Battle Creek, Mich., in Sep tember. 1913. He seemed to over come his ailment and in the winter again took up his lectures. On March 5, he was stricken with heart failure in New Orleans.
 Predicts Roosevelt in 1916. l. Mir. RiiS received at the hands ~i King Christian of Denmark, the gold ,,cross of the Order of Danebreg, which virtually knighted him. He had ac- ! cumulated comfortable fortune by his writings.
 Throughout his later life, Riis was known as the sturdy champion O
 Roosevelt. He repeatedly pradictet
 that his friend would be president ir 1916.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-27

There are some people beginning to suspect that before the mediation conference ends. the U s. will have agreed to indemnify Huerta for the loss of revenue occasioned by the taking over of the customs house at Vera Cruz.
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sent 200 State. institutions for tn. insane, and some of the best hho".- alienists in the United States al, ent. including Dr. Carlos Naci'cha"' W of New York, president of tha asso-'a- ton.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-27

The cleanup campaign that has
 just passed will be of no permanent benefit if it is not kept up. The man who takes bath only once a year might about as we'll not bathe at all.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-27

As for dragging about an Irishman being among the dead, you might as
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-05-27

When your clothes need; clean. ing pressing, or repairing. by HTS. class workmen. call WLite o.a. Pressing Club, phone 1041, or cal. a. q. 1894 1-2 w 9th avenue. o-zo os
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A. RIIS
 DIES YESTERDAY

fContinued from page one.)
The Washington times., 1914-02-08
ELECTRIC COMPANY
CEASES VALUATION
States in Annual Report to Con-
greSS That Value of Property
Is Unknown.
Bv GEORGE Il. GALL.

The Potomac Electric Power Company
has ceased TO set a value upon its prop
erty. For the first time in its annual
-eport to Congress the company this
year frankly states that it is unable 10
state the value of its property.
In the annual report last year The
ompany set down the value Of its
property at approximately $l&0O,Veo
Thib was an advance of SLJeO,ogo over
The value set upon its property at the
md Of the previous year, lsil. whether
ar not the company will wait until the
Public Utilities Commission makes its
desired physical valuation Of the plant
ncforc giving Congress any further re-
ports on this item is uncertain. At The
nd oC Tie year, 1911, the company esti-
mated its property as worth approx
mate 81, $4,000. At the end Of 1872 the
value WAS set down as approximately
yI3.Oo10Gy. At the end Of 1913, in place of
giving another valuation, the report to
Congress merely says ''unaDl 10 state.
However. the actual cost of the prop
erty to Dec. 81, 1913, Is given At Sll-3y1,-
rs, az increase Of SIS, 10. as compared
With an increase of s53l,e4I in the year
9l2
The Indebtedness OF the company was
decreased by $4,000 in the past year.
In the report a year ago the total in
Csbtcdness of the company was stated
TO I,c 81. - CO. Of which 81 600 was in
first mortgage per cent bonds; $5,V29.Uo0
n consolidated mortgagC SIS, and $@O0-
90 in bills payable. The last item does
not appear in this years report
The cUmpany's surplus for the year,
after aying operating expenses and
fixed charges but before payment of
dividends. was tGg7. i35 as compared
with $50, ,IJ5 a year ago and with Sjl6,66i
two years ago
Gross revenues amounted to 81 .95l, 1S6.
as compared with $l,S29.2iS in 1917 and
with 81, ,61O.1S5 in 1871. Operating eN-
Dcnses, including interest and sinking
.uud. amounted TO Sl.334.%5O. as COM
pared With Sl,267, ~ last year and 81. l53.
- in lll1
There has been no change in the list
Uf stockholders during the year nor
any change in the amount Of stock held
10y each
The Washington times., 1914-02-08
The Rampant GorgonzoIa.

Monsieur Oscar. the famous New
York ualtrc dhOteI, said the 9th 2r day
u chccseS:
The public taste has returned 10 the
more delicate checses-the Bries, the
Gruyercs 1t has turned away from
-heeses Of the ripe GOrgonzola type.
That is a good thing. too. These ripe
chccses are not hcalthfuI. By ripe !
mean, of course. cheese like that Of
% hich the editor wrote in his paper:
"'Will the person or persons who
shipped US the CiUrgonZola cheese last
IS eek kindly call or send for same.
otherwise We shall be obliged to shoot
It .''-EEchan2e.
The Washington times., 1914-02-08
No Star, No Mercy.

Little Everett was q member Of the
Band Of Mercy Society, and was proud
of the membership. He wore his badge.
A small star. as if it were a police
mans insignia, and was often heard
reproving other boys and girls for cruel
treatment of dogs and cats.
ore morning woman Of the neigh
borhood heard a cOmmOtion outside
Everett's home. and going to the win
dow was surprised 20 lind Everett in
th. act of tormenting the cat.
why. Everett" she called, what
arc YOU doing to that poor cat?
thought you belonged to the Band Of
Mercy Society?
81 did" replied the little boy, but 1
lost my star. ar."-LippincOtts.
The Washington times., 1914-02-08
BONrS SUCCESSES
SEVEN-DAY WONDER
Segnatura Breaks PrecedentS
in Prompt Action on His
Divorce Decree.

ROME, Feb. S.-Thr success of Count
Boni de Castenane with the high law
courts of the Vatican is a seven-day
wonder at Rome. Boni begin his suit
for divorce from Anna Could in 1911. Al
though the first decision went against
him, he has since been able to ring I'D
three successive decisions in his favor,
these being given by the Rota and the
Segnatura tribunals.
AS a result of this success Vatican
wiseacres have no doubt that in the
end the Duchess of Tallyrand will have
10 worry along with only one husband,
the Prince de Sagen instead of two,
as she is now trying to do.
The first decision of the Rota tribunal,
in 1911, declared the marriage between
Boni and Anna Gould legal Immediate
" thereafter BOnI came to Rome, and
it is declared, made it public in the
Vatican circles that having been an
intimate friend at Paris of the new
President Of the Chinese republic, when
the latter was a student, it would be
possible for him to obtain very favor
able concessions for the Catholic mis-
siOnaries in China
Opened to Catholics.
Whatever the actual status of this
may have been, the fact remains that
the new President Of the Chinese re-
public has opened up the country to
Catholic missionaries on a basis they
never had before. and IL is equally a
fact that since then Boni has been most
successful in his suit before the Vati-
can law courts.
Last March, the Rota tribunal reheard
the case and declared the marriage
void. Immediately the Duchess of Tai
lyTand appealed 10 the tribunal of the
Apostolic Segnatura. declaring she had
not been notified of the second hearing.
The appeal left BOni in a delicate posi-
ton. Ordinarily, at least year is re-
quircd for a Vatican tribunal to pass
upon a question. Boni was obliged to
stand for reelection this spring to the
French chamber of deputies for a
Catholic district, where the fact that the
Vatican had refused him a divorce, or
that ne had obtained it merely by not
allowing the Duchess of Tallyrand to
defend herself, would have counted
heavily against him. 1t was necessary,
therefore, that Boni get both quick and
favorable decision. And both of these
he did.
Breaks Precedents.
The Scgnatura broke all precedents
by hearing the case within a few
months. namely last November. and
then by deciding it shortly thereafter.
IT also refused the appeal Of the Ouch
ess Of Tallyrand. As a consequence,
BOni can now 20 before his French
Catholic electors this spring with at
least one full decision in his favor. This
will probably enable him Al least TO
be reelected to the chamber of deputies,
after which the ROta will grant the
third hearing in the case.
The Rota has now given two decisions,
The Washington times., 1914-02-08
Couldn't Wait.

Little Jasper Scnter learned Iom
the ministers sermon one Sunday that
man was made OF clay, so after return
ing from church he resolved to make
him a man after his own fashion. The
work proceeded in the clay bank back
Of the garden until his mother called
Jasper to luncheon. He had completed
all of the man save one leg.
That afternoon Jasper and his mother,
while walking along the street, met a
man with one leg, walking with
crutches. Jasper acCosted him and
grabbed his coat.
See here" he said. Il thought !
told you to stay there in the yard till
put that other leg on yOu."-Judge.
The Washington times., 1914-02-08

the first in favor of the Duchess of
Tallyrand, and the second in favor OF
Boni. The third will be final. the pro-
cedure of the ROta requiring two SINH
lar decisions for the final adjudication
of a case Little doubt is entertained
at Rome that this third decision will
confirm the second in BOni's favor.
The Washington times., 1914-02-08
THE STOCK MARKET OF THE WEEK

Following
gl Ito
The Washington times., 1914-02-08
WANTEp-FARMS

4 SETTLED COUPLE who thoroughly uu-
drrstand farming would like to take care
of or rent; must be cheap. 1910 1st ST. n. Z.
The Washington times., 1914-02-08
Reliable Horse & Mule Co.

II: JItb ~. y. w.
Auction sale Monday, Feb. o, 1911, 10
4. NJ, Rain or SbInc.
I5O-HEAD-I
WILL McHENRY
One load of big finished draft horses
NORMAN CORBIN
IS head of good young sound horses
from Loudouu County, Va.
CHAS. McHENRY
One load of all-purpOsc horses
RICH McHENRY
One load of horses and mules from
West Virginia.
SPECIALS.
Six big mated teams and l6 head Of
voans, grays, and bays, suitable for ice
beer. coal, dairy, bakery, and general
teaming.
Three PAGERS, two trOtters.
Five pair young sound mules.
Three pair secondhand mules
All stock must be as represented or
money refunded.
stock sold on commission. Consign-
ments received until hour of sale.
Private sale all day every day.
We carry the largest assortment of
stock al both public or private sale Of
any stable in the District Of Columbia.
Phone Main 147S,