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The Washington herald., 1915-05-03
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met the Kearsarge in action and was
defeated. His vessel went down.
Everybody must be familiar" said
Mr.. Cox. with picture painted by
an artist some time after the fight be-
tween the kearsarge and the Alabama
II represented the Alabama in the act
of sinking. Many copies of this pic
ture were made and the people in this
way became familiar with the paint
ing. IL was presented either TO Sec
rotary William Fl. Seward or to the Sec
rotary of the Navy. Gideon Welles, l
am not certain which.
"A year or two after the painting
had been placed upon exhibition, Capt.
WinsIow was in Washington. He was
asked if he would not like to see this
painting and when he said he would
he was taken to the place where il
hung on exhibition.
"winslow looked at the picture for
a long time and at last was asked il
il was a fairly accurate portrayal Of
the battle. lie hesitated about replying
and did not do SO until urged. Then
he said: at is a very good likeness of
the Kearsarge, but it is not an accu-
rate one of the Alabama. In the
painting the Alabama il made to ap-
pear much smaller than the Kear-
sarge That isn't right. She was as
big as the KearsarRe. if not bigger.
She had more guns and larger crew.
The picture would be better If ii
showed more accurately the appear
ance of the Alabama"
Copyright. Icl5. by +. J. Edwards. All rights re
seryedJ
Tomorrow DIR. Edwards will tell of
The Washington herald., 1915-05-03

David Lloyd George. Chancellor OF the. FIX
chcqucr in England has been studying American
politics. He talked prohibition tor several weeks
and then prop' cd 10 Parliament doubling the
taxes on alcoholic liquors. TO raise the necessary
revenues for the conduct OF the war. There is no
better way to persuade the peonle to submit TO
increased taxes than TO ncgin with the threat to
prohibit the manufacture and sale OF the articles
which pay the taxes. That is the way VIC generally
begin in Congr $ and our State legislatures. Pro-
hbiton is fast coming to mean the promotion OF
taxes.
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An innovation in the way OF charity
benefit is the flower tag day which is tC
be inaugurated on Saturday. Society
girls and matrons will sell dainty corn
flowers on the streets and in the horse
show grounds in aid of the Washington
Diet Kitchen. following the European
custom. In England the wild rose
Queen AleXandra's favorite flower. is
sold for the benefit of the hoe pitfalls in
which she is interested. The tuberculosis
wards in Russia are benefited by the ga IL
of the narcissus in the streets. while the
flower girls of Paris. with their fragani
baskets. are a picturesque sight in the
Champs ElySees and the Rue de la PaiN.
Nine. Hauge is chairman of the COM
mite in charge of the flower sale. and
is assisted by Mrs. Blair. Mrs. Horace
Westcott. Mrs. Garrison McClintock and
Mrs. Howard. Miss Adelaide, Heath has
charge of the stations. Miss Gwynn Is
president of the Diet Kitchen. and the
members of the board are Lady Spring
Rice, Mrs. Kirk Porter. Mrs. Wander
bilt. Mrs. Slocum Mrs. Shavely. Mrs. Z.
Mclean, Mrs. Oscar Underwood, Mrs. ].
II. Merriam. Mrs. David +. Houston.
Mrs. Wolcott. Mrs. l.. ii. Bradley. Mrs.
James Harlan. Miss Adds. Mrs. Clarence
Moore, Mrs. II. c. Perkins, and Miss
Lee.
Miss Dorothy Gates was hostess at
luncheon yesterday in honor of the
girls from Little Rock. Ark. who are
attending school in Washington.
Among the guests were Miss Frances
Morrison, Miss Edith Cornish. Miss
Frances Merriwether. Miss Mabel
whettenburg. of Bristol Seminary;
Miss Mamie Jett, of Belcourt: Miss
Dorcas Parker. of Gunston; Miss lisa :
bel Ringlehony. of National Cathe-
dral; Miss Rosalie Kidd. Of Chevy
Chase Seminary. and Miss Anna Mae
Parker, of Washington.
Mrs. Stephen cambridge Kennedy
has announced the engagement of her
cousin, Miss Pendleton Kennedy, of
Kentucky, to DR.. David Linn Edsall,
of Boston. The wedding will take
place quietly on June at the home
of Miss Kennedy's cousins. DR.. and
Mrs. William Beverley Mason, in
Washington.
The marriage of Miss Helen Hunt,
daughter of Judge and Mrs William
II. Hunt. and Mr.. Barnaby Conrad. will
take place on Saturday afternoon. May
90, at o'clock. at st. Paurs Church.
Miss Gertrude Hunt will be maid of hon
or for her sister and the flower girl
will be the brides small niece. Miss
Betty Thompson. 4 reception will fol-
low at $50 o'clock.
Judge and Mrs. unit have RECENTLY re-
turned to Washington and are at their
home. ITO y street
Mr.. and Mrs. r. NJ. Hicks. of Wash
ington. are spending 4 few days in New
York City, and have made their stopping
Dlace al ne Wnlcott Hotel
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In New York divorce court last week the
wifc's confessed inability to cook figured IN the
proceedings Any tendency to consider the lack
OF this accomplishment in such suits must be hrn'-
" opposed or the gentle OF the present gene
ration will have to shun the divorce courts
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Doings of Society

| son entertained informally at tea yes
| terday AFTERNOON in honor of her guest
| Niscount and Niscountess de Sibour CHI
| tertalned all those who had charge or
| the fete at Friendship at dinner at
| the Chevy Chase Club SATURDAY even
ing.
Mrs. Harriet Blaine BeaIe returned "a
Washington yesterday morning from
Chattanooga.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis T. Mct-ar- have
! arrived at Newport and opened their cor
| tage for the season.
The executive committee of the ,'nn-
Grcssional Union has taken box at
keith's for tonight. in order to witness
Nazimova Performance of War
Brides The box will be decorated win
the suffrage colors and the Amendment
banner. Those who will be present will
be Mrs William Kent. Miss Lucy Burns
Mrs Richard wainwright, Mrs S r. NJ
Young, Mrs. Henry George. ir.. Mrs
, Dean. of Montana, and Dr. and Mrs H,r
vey w. Wiley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wilcox were
hosts at dinner at the Chevy Chase
Cup Saturday evening in honor Of
'heif niece. Miss Jean Hinklc
ana Mrs. George Howard have as
thelr guests at their country pI.ce Nrs
Dodge and Mr.. George Widcner.
anu Mrs Howard entertained a
huhiper or guests from town al tea yes
terday afternoon in honor of Miss WI,
more. '"
senior Emilio Monosyl. of san Salvador
is at the Willard for Il few DAYS,
Mrs. j. Low Hartman and Mrs Vii
lars-Hatton are the guests or NJ 49,,
Mrs. Perry Belmont, who were bos,,
at dinner for them on Saturday eyen-
ing.
Miss Cryder entertained at a must
ca tea yesterday afternoon at her res
loence IN street. when Miss Grace
tramer. soprano. and Mr.. John X Mon
roe. pianist. gave several charming
selections.
Mrs. Mitchell Carroll. of BcIair
Thirty-fourth place. Cleveland Park.
VII receive Wednesday afternoon from
4 until I o'clock.
Mrs. Robert Mccormick will entor-
tain at small dance tonight i'm honor
or Countess Gizycka.
MI John y Wilson, of Franklin, Pa
cousin of the President, arrived at the
Willard for a short visit to Washing
ton.
Mrs Fitzhugh Lee will leave Washing
ton this evening accompanied by her
little son. Fletcher Cole, for San Antonio
Ten to join Capt. Lee. who is stationed
there.
Mrs Clarence Moore. whose husband
was drowned in the Titanic disaster.
was married to Mr.. Aksel Christian Pre-
ben Wichset. of New York, on Satur-
day afternoon at 2:lJ o'clock At her
residence In Massachusetts avenue The
ceremony was performed by the Rev.
Roland Cotton Smith, rector OF ST.
JOINS Church. in the presence of tn.
Danish Minister. uncle OF the bride
groom: Mr.. Woodbury. Blair. and Miss
Frances Moore. Mr.. and Mrs WichseIt
left Immediately after the ceremony ror
New York. and yesterday they left for
a trip TO California, accompanied by Miss
Frances Moore.
An interesting motor party arriving at
tn" Willard yesterday included Mrs.
Daniel Willard. wife of the president OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and
her daughter. Miss Maria Willard. and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Smith. Of Nashua.
y. III.
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Four New Jersey lawyers have been dlsbarrcd
and three suspended from practice Tor various
offenses including the extorton OF money from
clients and the filing OF false bills OF complaint
Frequent disclosures in New York would indicate
that some OF the same medicine would do good
over there
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GOOD RADIANCE.

LOST-Onc temper. Ran away
Strayed, or stolen; old and gray.
Answers to the name of BAD;
DISPOSITION somewhat mad.
Fifty cents REWARD will be
Paid TO Finder instantly
Who locates the same and then
Promptly loses it again.
copyright l9lj.l
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1t is being suggested that result OF his
cavorting in the spotlight OF the Barnes libel trial
in Syracuse Col. Roosevelt will get right INTO the
running for the g.. q. F.. nomination. This Is
dangerous business. II it is kept up and some ono
else is nominated the Colonel may again get the
notion that he has been cheated out OF something.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-03

A Vice Presidential boom has been launched
for lanes Hamilton Lewis probably Just because
somebody suggested recently that Jim Mann 5
whiskcrs would be an asset for Presidential
ticket; but Jim Hams are whiskerS OF another
color.
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Woman Suffrage in Jersey.

Votes for women in New Jersey are yet to
come But the cause is advancing when the gov
ernor of the State calls special session of the leg
isaturc to correct in the suffrage bill pro-
viding for submission of the question at a special
election New York World.
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Rapid.

Philadelphia is to teach geography BY
moving pictures. That is about the only
way to keep up with European geos'
raphy.-Indianapolis News.
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The REGULAR Rate.

You say you saw me kiss your sister
last night? Don't you suppose you could
be Mistaken
"Sure, l could-for a quarter. That's
what the other fellers always give me-"
--Chicago News.
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Selr-Help.

Voice-Is this the Weather Bureau?
How about a shower tonight?
Prophet-Don't ask me. II you need
one, take it.-Chaparral.
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No Escape.

'.Bildock's latest move didn't better
his condition. did it:
No; he merely jumped from the cleo
trio griddle into the freiess cooker
Puck.
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One of Villas officers fred at him three times
without hitting him last Wednesday, according
TO the dispatches Those officers OF Villas must
get tho blind staggers every time they go cunning
for him.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-03

The ruling that sons-in-law cannot ride on COM
mutation railroad tickets, the property OF their
fathers law will make the Interstate Commerce
Commission popular in some households.
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Morning Smiles.


Payton-After his death an autopsy was
performed.
Mrs Malaprop-How swell! BY which
orchestra Life.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-03

An Englishman, who used to be the kaisers
head Jockey, writes from German prison to
friends in England, begging for food. Apparently
the Kaiser is not much OF sportsman.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-03

Aunt Ethel-Well. Beatrice. were you
very brave at the dentists?
Beatrice-Yes, auntie. / was.
Aunt EtheEThen, there's the haif
crown promised you. And now tell me
what he did to you
HSatrice-He pulled out tSo Of Willie $
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be relied upon to exercise any control over the
country's national banks that was desirable in the
public interest.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-03
A Line O. Cheer Each Day o the Year
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.

First printing original poem, written daily
for The Washington Herald.
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A Danger Of Sympathy.
By JOHN ID. BARRY.

Q ONE time ago lawyer told me of an expert
- that thought amusing. He no
humor in it. however. AS he spoke he showed a
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good deal of bitter feeling.
81 went down to the coun-
try a little while ago on a
railroad case" he began.
Then he told me something
about the case. He was
against the railroad and he
had for associate a dis
tinguished attorney.
when we got down
there" he said, 1--WE were
having everything our own
way. 1t happened that on
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Tomorrow DIR. Edwards will tell of
"Farraguts Coffee Order at Mobile
Bay"
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Our COUNTRY So
HOUR PRESIDENT
NzzS1gYM MezkezzsMZtWS
||95N00DR()k WILSON
GETTING RID OF TYRANNY.

Published special arrangement cith the President through
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
by Hare&
Isl. b. Nla Syndicate
The Washington herald., 1915-05-03

Mr and Mrs. George Howard have as
,helr guests at their country place Mrs
Eari Dodge and Mr.. George Widcner
hr. ana Mrs. Howard entertained n
NUMBER or guests from town at tea yes-
teroay afternoon in honor of Miss Wet
The Washington herald., 1915-05-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wilcox wcre
nosts at dinner at the Chevy Chase
Ciuo saturday evening in honor OF
their niece. Miss Jean Hinklc.
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senior Emilio Monosyl of san Salvador
Is at the Willard for Il few DAYS
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CONTINUED on PAGE FIVE.
The Washington herald., 1915-05-03

An interesting motor party arriving at
the Willard yesterday included Mrs
Daniel Willard. wife of the president OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. and
her daughter. Miss Maria Willard. and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. Smith, of Nashua
y. III.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02

in Belgium are also being cared loi
and fed;
"In destroyed communities S5OO'Ooo
has been spent in the erection OF tenn
porary shelters;
Clothing worth $3,4OO,OOO has been
distributed through the central cloth
ing bureau in Brussels;
For tue purchase of clothing local
". $1,000. 600 has been distributed to
the destitute;
"The total subscriptions up to date
in actual cash have been about $15,'
100000;
In the distribution of food over 55''
OOO volunteer workers, mostly Bel
gians, have been employed;
The relief work has extended to the
distribution of medical supplies and
to the distribution of thousands OF
tons of seed to agriculturalists;
"In France, where the nation is still
behind the dispossessed industrial
workers. the commission has found 1t
sufficient to grant money subyentions
to the communes, which undertake
the care of their own destitute
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
lEECRAFT COLLECTS
$4,000 IN ONE MONTH

Oklahoma City, Aug. 1.-Opening
the new highway department July /,
A. n. Leecraft, who acted as commits
sioner for the last month, collected
more than $4,000 for the state for
motor vehicle tags and licenses, ac'
cording to a compilation of receipts
made Sunday.
Mr.. Leecraft Monday goes back to
his old position of secretary to Gov
ernor Williams, and George Noble,
until now state game and fish war
den, becomes highway commissioner.
Mr.. Noble will be succeeded by John
Chenoweth.
81 believe 100000 will be paid into
the highway department during the
next thirty days" said Mr.. Leecraft.
"Now that the department is organ
lied and publicity has been given
throughout the state to the new good
roads law, there is no reason why
the automobile owners should not lit
orally swarm in with applications"
During the month he served as head
of the highway department, Mr.. Lee
craft signed 1857 certificates of regis
tration on automobiles, 97S on motor
cycles. He took acknowledgement of
1852 individuals applying for registra-
tion.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
Change in Motive Power.

The principal radical change in
navy construction as in vogue in the
United States navy involved in the
plans for the new boat will be the
use of steam turbines and oil fur
naces as motive power. Hitherto all
submarine craft in Uncle Sans fleet
have been driven on the surface by
internal combustion motors, using gas
oline or special oil. These have been
proven unreliable and unsatisfactory,
and only recently, in an open letter.
Secretary Daniels declared that he
had found it impossible to find an
oil motor that could be depended
upon to give satisfactory service and
refrain from breaking down at times
OF critical service.
According to technical reports from
abroad, both Germany and France
have discarded the oil engine in their
newer submarines, and adopted steam
turbines with crude oil furnaces for
motive power This system offers
the advantage of freedom from break
ing down as the marine turbine has
been evolved to a most satisfactory
and reliable stage, and, in addition
il enables the submarine to use less
expensive and less actual fuel, and
also to use the same kind of fuel
as the rest OF the fleet.
Lieutenant Commander Courtney's
paper opens awe-inspiring vistas TO
the Imagination of the naval archi-
tect should the type of ship he sug-
gests prove successful. II the type
succeeds it will be only a question
of time before larger ships of the
same sort are built, armed with guns
of the heaviest type. Fleets OF SUD-
mersibles of great size, armed with
II and 16-inch guns, stealing in under
water and taking up positions within
easy range of great seacoast cities,
to rise above the surface at nightfall
and hurl their death-dealing broad
sides into its streets and buildings
until located by the guns of its de
Tending fortificat,ons, then submerg
ing and floating away invisible, to
rise to the surface at another point
of vantage and -enew their work oi
destruction. offers as terrible a pic
ture of war as it may be. According
to naval experts. the idea is practi
cable. and nothing but a few years
OF evolution and the working out oI
! mechanical details stands between II
a-d its realization.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
WHAT AMERICAN COMMISSION
is DOING IN BELGIUM

London, Aug l.. Correspondence
of The Associated Press The prin'
cipal speaker of the opening OF the
summer session of Kings College was
II. c. Hoover, chairman of the Ameri'
can commission for relief in Belgium
His address was description OF the
work of the commission
81 could bore you stiff with details
of the multitudinous branches OF our
work" he remarked, but the main
facts are these:
"Foodstuffs worth $55,OOO,OOO have
been supplied and sold up to June
30;
1.-TWO hundred ninety-three complete
shiploads, comprising over 100000
tons of bread stufrs have been i'm
ported
1--WE are spending $3,5OO,OOO for the
upkeep of the canteens for Belgians
absolutely destitute;
I'VE have spent $4,000 through the
committee appointed to look after
homeless and orphan children; $4,000
children have been placed in tempo
rary homes until after the war;
Twenty thousand foreign refugees
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
CONGRESS
|SHE|R TOA
TOUGH JOB
SUPREME COURT PASSES THE EN-
TIRE QUESTION OF LAND
GRANTS UP FOR SOCUTlON-
TOO DIFFICULT FOR THEM.

Washington, Aug. 1-When con-
gress meets in December, it will face
one of the most remarkable problems
it has ever encountered, namely a sug-
gestion by the United States supreme
court that congress undertake the So
luton of a problem founa too difficult
for the supreme court to decide. This
is in substance the result of the
courts decision in the so-called Ore
gon railroad land grant case.
This case was brought by the gov
ernment to recover from the Oregon
California Railroad company Ga sub
sidiary of the Southern Pacific) tract
of land 60 miles wide, 400 miles long,
comprising 100000 acres and con-
tanning about 10000, 100000 board feet
of very valuable timber, the whole
tract between $4O,00O000 and $50
600. This was one of the famous west
ern land grants enacted by congress
in the early SOS, which have caused
so much scandal since. A provision of
the act granting this land to the rail
road required that the railroad should
sell the land to settlers at $3.50 an
acre. The court found that this pro-
vision of the grant had been flagrant-
ly dsregarded by the railroad. Some
of the land had been sold at prices
higher than $3.50 an acre, little of it
at that price but the vast majority of
it had been retained by the railroad
company, which has been holding 1t
for increase in value.
In spite of the fact that the court
found that the railroad had violated
the terms of the grant, it declined to
decree a forfeiture in accordance
with the provision contained in the
grant under which the lands would
revert to the federal government. The
situation is complicated somewhat by
the fact that there are settlers on
some of the lands, some Oh WHO'LL
hope to secure the title by payment OF
the $3.50 an acre as required by law.
The lands, of course, are worth much
more than this price, but some of the
settlers went on in good faith, expect
ing to secure them at this law-named
! price. Other settlers are clearly dunn
my entrymen, put on by the railroad
when the road found it was to be
! sued
he supreme court did neither one
thing nor the other. 1t admitted that
the governments contention was cor
rect and that the road had violated
! the terms of the grant, but it did not
forfeit the lands and restore them to
the public domain, nor did it leave
the title with the railroad company
and direct the immediate sale of the
timber at $3.50 an acre. Instead it
lodged the whole question, by passing
it up to congress.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-08-02
ONE WEAR SPOT
Many Ardmore People Have Weak
Part, and Too often It's the Back

MANY Ardmore People Have a Weak
Part, and Too Often It's the Back
Many people have weak spot.
Too often it's a bad back.
Twinges follow every sudden twist,
Dull aching keeps up, day and night.
Backache is often from weak kid
neys.
In such case a kidney medicine is
needed.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak
kidneys,
For backache and urinary ills.
Ardmore people recommend the rem
edy.
Mrs. ]. n. Lathrop, 112 Third Ave,
S. w, Ardmore, says: For over year
| suffered from backache that kept
me from getting my proper rest at
night. 1t had a constant pain across
my loins and hips and was miserable
in every way. Doan's Kidney Pills
did me a world of good. | have had
no cause for complaint since. know
of several other people who have used
Doan's Kidney Pills with benefit"
Price soc, at all dealers Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs Lathrop had. Foster-Milburn %.
Props, Buffalo, n. Y.