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prominent within the last week, be-
cause of the time of the year. has been
the number of requests for route In
formation between the east and the
west on the part of those who have
planned to, make the trip with sons
and daughters who are attending tas
various preparatory schools and col
leges in the east Heretofore the home
going of the students has been by
train. but this year the spirit of tour
ing has so increased that il has brought
about a desire to make the trip by au-
tomobile-
Another point showing the increasing
t.erest in more general touring is
the requests for data through sec
tions that have formerly had but lit
tie attention. Many of these inquir res
come from those who previously con-
fined their summer touring 20 the
northeast section of the country. but
are now looking for variants that they
may become equally familiar with
other sections famed in colonial and
subsequent history. Some of this area
is today travela BILE. but even after the
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TOURING BY AUTOMOBILE
Is ON THE INCREASE
Requests for Route Data Show That
Unfrequented Sections Are
Being Visited.

America is already feeling the effect
of an enormous increase in automobile
touring over previous years. The
figures up to June l have reached a
volume without precedent in any pre-
vidNs years records. This informa ton
comes from the national clearing house
for automobile touring. the American
Automobile Association, with head
quarters in this city.
Just as straws show the direction of
the wind, SO do many of the unusual
requests for touring routes demon
strate there are many new incentives
that are bringing about this increased
travel.
One of these that has become rather
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Two-Day Pullman Convention.

The annual convention of Pullman rep-
resentatiSes throughout the United
States will he held Tuesday and Wed
nesday Of this week at York, Pa. Will
liam p Barnhart, local representative.
accompanied by number OF subagen,s
in this section. will be in attenda nee
al the meeting.
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Enjoyed Atlantic City Trip.

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Strasburger mo-
tored to Atlantic City over Memorial
day, in their Packard touring car. They
returned Thursday evening, having en-
loved the outing. They report the
roads in good condition despite the
rainy weather.
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Left for New Hampshire.

Mrs Joseph NJ stoddard. accom-
panied by her two children and chau'-
feur motored to Wonderwell. West
Springfield. y. H.. in her Cadillac tour
ing car where she expects to remain
until fall Mr. Stoddard will motor up
to New Hampshire later in the season
to join his family.
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Motored to Atlantic City.

Mr. and Mrs. ]. d. Darnall, in their
Hudson touring car, accompanied by
Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. GLEN, motored to
Atlantic City over Decoration day. They
went via Philadelphia and the White
Horse pike. returning via Penns Grove
and Wilmington.
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Widman Out Again.

Thomas, Fl. Wld1nan. deputy commits
siener .ot motor vehicles of Maryland,
who was injured several. days ago on
his motor cycle at Hyattsville, Md,
has left Sibley Hospital and returned
to his home He is slowly recovering
from his injuries.
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Going to Jefery Factory.

Jefferson Combs of the Combs How
ard Company. local representatives for
the Jeffery line, expects to leave today
for kenosha, Wis, to visit the Jenery
plant. He will be gone several days on
the trip.
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Chandler Notes.

The Bosch Magnetic Company has
purchased new model 1s Chandler
car for Its experimental car for the
coming year
Delivery of seven-passenger model 16
touring cars were reported during the
past week as follows: Ragan & Tay-
lor. Inc: Capt. F. II. Emerson. L. s. A..
and Col. William Z. Harvey. District
NationSl Guard.
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e6566-Allegheny Company, s27, 14th
street northwest, Ford
26567-George S. Foreman, 1892 Flori-
da avenue northeast, Pullman.
2656S-F. D. Mears, 153 11th street
northwest, Studebaker.
26569-Henry Halbrobke, 3347 NJ street
northwest, Side car.
2657O-Jacob Eisemann, 1912 Kalo-
rama road northwest, Cadillac.
26571-H. H. Hilbirt, 25 Seaton place
northwest. Dodge.
r 2S572--C. H. Taylor, 2Os Massachusetts
avenue northwest, Cadillac.
o657S--Merchants' Transfer and Stor-
age Company, 920 f street northwest
Wilcox -Trux.
26574-John j. Javins, Center Market
Ford
26575-Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Company, 18th and East Capitol
2e576-J. p. Green. 2o3 street north
west Stanley.
26577-Edgar NJ. Kitchin. Ouray build
ing. Studebaker.
2657s--L Perry West, 1929 New York
avenue northwest. Buick.
2657s-John D. Furlong. 1901 10th
street northwest. Studebaker.
265S0-Charlotte Eichhorn. l415 Mon
roe street northwest. Ford.
265s1-James Weir. 1899 Irving street
northwest. Chevrolet.
LOoSZ-f1eTDeTt j. GMCSluTe, loof W
lumbia road northwest, Chevrolet
26583-Chesapeake and Potomac Tele-
phone Company, 722 18th street north
west Ford.
2s5s4-John D. Langhorne. 1910 18th
street northwest, Pierce Arrow.
265s5-L. P. wadsworth, Brighton
apartments, Rauch & Lang electric.
265s6-W. c. Guerin. 324 Maryland
avenue northeast Ford.
2S587-Anna s. Williamson, 2616 Con-
necticut avenue, northwest, Rauch &
Lang electric.
/, 365S8-Corby Baking Company, Geor-
gia avenue northwest Ford.
265S9-Congressiop garage. SIS
PENNSYLVANIA avenue southeast Hud-
son.
2s590-James r. Carr, 222 11th street
northeast. Ford.
2659l-A., Y. Eeech. jr.. 2702 Cathedral
avenue northwest, Overland.
Out-of-Town Licenses.
2sssa-James A. Nelson. Bethesda.
Nd, Route 2. Buick.
25ss4-W. H. Bobinger, Route l,
Montgomery county, Nd, Ford
25ss5-W E Rucketts. Rockville.
Nd. Ford.
more. Nd. Ford.
258s7-Dr Henry F. Ortel, Baltimore,
Nd. Buick.
25sss-Dunbar s Sanner, Baltimore.
s5sssMA. w. Thompson, Baltimore.
Md. Cadillac.
25ss0-Walter G. Ruding, Ballston,
Va. Buick.
25ss1-August G. Vogel, Baltimore.
Md. studebaker.
25S92-John L. DERRICK, iew Market.
Nd. Buick.
o5893-I.afayette P Temple. Balti.
more, Md, Paige.
25894-Charles A. Hermann, Ellicott
25ss5-J. NJ. Heagy. jr. Rockville,
25sss-Ellery F. Coffin. Mulrkirk,
. 25se7-Martin Helm. Rockville. Md.
Studebaker.
25s98-Gustav MetZman, Gardenville,
eb899-Nrs. George S. Demuth, Chevy
Chase. Md, Buick.
253o0-R r. Leizear, Silver Spring,
Nd. Wilcox-Trux.
25s01-Montgomery Harriss. Rock
vile. Md. Ford.
25s02-Charles f. Alexander, Balti-
more. Nd, Wilton.
25eos-Irma S, Gillespie. Baltimore.
25so4-Hendler Creamery Company,
Baltimore. Nd. REQ. -
25905--A. Kahn, Baltimore, Md.
Buick
25906-B. Senker, Baltimore. Nd,
Chalmers.
2590I-Walter NJ. Swindell, Balti-
more. Nd. Winton.
25908-H. j. Walton. Baltimore, Md,
Ford
25909--Louis Michoels, Baltimore,
Md, Overland.
2591O-Charles E. Moore, Poland
Park. Md Winton.
2591I-HazeI c. Schumacher. Balti-
more, Md, Ford
25sie-S r. Bradley. Rockville, Nd,
Flanders
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MAINE AUTO TOURISTS
WILL FIND GOOD ROADS
The Few Detours Necessary Will Be
Short and for the Most Part
Good Ones.

Tourists in Maine this summer will
have little difficulty on account of road
work, and what few tours there are
will be short and for the most part
good ones. While the Maine state
highway commission has large
amount of road construction planned
for 1915, it also has arranged to have
the majority of the big jobs completed
before the rush of tourist travel in July
and August. All of the new work pro-
posed will be short and located at
points where there are good detours.
There can never be another summer
in Maine like that of 1914, SO far as
road work is concerned, as. during last
season. the commission planned to con-
struct majority of the very worst
stretches of highway In the entire
state. These were not entirely finished
last fall but will be within a few
weeks at the latest, and the new work
planned is all Of a much easier type.
The many miles of road built by the
state highway commission last year
are in splendid condition this season,
and the tourists coming into Maine will
find approximately 200 or $50 miles of
new state and state-aid highway over
which they may motor at amy legal
rate of speed. and which will be found
to be as smooth as any boulevard in
the vicinity of the great cities like
Boston New York and PHILADELPHIA
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roads have become settled. during the
summer, there remain many miles
which must be put in better condition
before touring can become really
definite proposition. Much road build-
ing has been done and a great deaf
more is now planned and viii he car
ried out this year. One of these en-
braces a circuit in Virginia that will
take in most of the renowned battle
fields OF the civil war that heretofore
were practically isolated from the tour
iSt
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Drove Buick From Flint. Mich,

Robert H. Martin. manager of the
Washington branch Of the Buick Motor
Company. arrived in Washington yester-
day. having driven one of the 1916 five
passenger. six-cyiinder light touring
cars over the road from the factory at
Flint
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viii Represent Midgely Tire.

The Chew Goucher Company an
nounces that 1t has been appointed ex-
elusive agent for the Midgely steel
studded tire in the District and ada
cent territory. - co.'s
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The Second Hand Book Shon

There is an ancient blue law, I'M
earthed In Boston, which places sec
ond-hand books in the same category
with castoff clothing, requiring the
registry and retention of all old books
purchased for a period of thirty days
before they are sold. The enforcement
of such a law would work needless
hardships on the secondhand book
dealer, often a quaint character whose
own personality lends interest to his
establishment, and benefactor to the
book lovers of his community.
For the man who appreciates books
for their contents and not their backs,
the secondhand book shop has fasci-
nation that never wanes. 1t might
possibly, in course of time, attract
him less, if repeated browsing at
made him familiar with the whole
stock, but the stock is never the same
form one day to the next and therein
lies the charm that leads the habitue
back again and again. Any day, or
any hour, some rare and much sought
after volume is liable to make it's APP
pearance unobtrusively, but none the
less welcome to the collectors eye.
There is hardly a book on the deal
er's shelves, or resting on one of his
sadly disordered tables, however tri-
vial it may be in itself, that does not
possess history, sometimes tragic
and nearly always sad.
There will be found the discarded
gift book, its former splendor faded;
the books that were parted with one
by one, perhaps, to buy food; the sal
wage of once cherished libraries on
which years of patience and affection
were expended by some devoted col
lector, and there will be found the
schoolboy's battered Tacitus beside
trivial maxims of some latter day
satirist. All the greatness of which
books are capable and all their pa
thetic uselesness-at least to some
people-are revealed in the second
hand book shop. And, best of all, it is
one place on earth where an idler is
always welcome!
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NEW EMPEROR CHINA

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
At last President Yuan Shi-Kai of the
so called Chinese republic has thrown off
tho mask, and it is announced that he
will shortly assume the title of Emperor
eminent. This has long been foreshad-
owed by his course. There has never
been any substantial existence of re-
public in China since DR.. Sun Vat Sen,
the republican leader and provisional
President, turned over the country to
President Yuan. Almost immediately
Yuan reduced the national assembly to
impotence and arrogated to himself the
powers of dictator which he has since
used. The loud proclamatons of lib
eral reforms. including the granting of
suffrage to Chinese women, were mere
fairy tales for the delusion of the west.
The only change in China was the sweep
ing out of the Manchu dynasty and the
usurpation of their authority by Yuan
and his friends
If he now throws aside the sham of re-
publicanism and dons the purple (or Is II
the yellow in China) no One need be
surprised. The cable reports that President
Goodnow of Johns Hopkins now in that
city, former legal adviser to Yuan, ap-
proves his intention may be true enough.
The Chinese millions, in their present
stage of civilization and education, are
probably no more fit to assume the re-
sponsibilties of republican government
than to fight Japan. Education and intel
ligence must be attained. But Yuan's
making himself an Emperor, and revert
ing to monarchial government is not 60
ing to hasten the qualification of his
corntrymen for self government. The most
! that he can do is to do as the elder Diaz
did in Mexico with disastrous results, and
Diaz needed no crown.
| The Chinese republic may go but only
because it was premature. Some day II
will come back, when the Chinese are
able to maintain it.
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that territorial expansion war far
from German thought.
AS matter of fact the Teutonic
policy is well illustrated by "coon''
story in. the current issue of Hollands
Magazine.
Old colored Rufus, so the story goes,
was on trial for having slashed fell
low workman with razor. The razor
was on exhibit at the trial, but the
lawyer for the defense produced so
many witnesses who swore that Rufus
was a gentle, harmless niger, never
known to carry razor, that the jury
acquitted him. Old Rufus then rose to
thank the jury, finally asking the
judge if he might lax question" The
judge assented.
"Does All git my razor back ?" de-
manded Rufus.
Germany would not war for terri
torial expansion-she says she
wouldn't herself
However, la Uncle Rufus, she OBJ
serves, "But l gets to keep my Bel
GUM"
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THE NAVAL ACADEMY
4 the Pittsburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch
The final report of the naval court of
inquiry primarily into alleged misconduct
of students at the Naval academy at
Annapolis, and secondarily into some
methods of instruction in the institution
itself, confirms the original finding of the
superintendent. which was to the effect
that there exists in the academy a deplor-
able condition affecting the standard of
ethics among the young men being edu-
Gated there which Is best described blythe
wore rotten"
All recommendations of the superinten-
dent for punishments weer not sustained
but enough were upheld to satisfy the
public that in the main he had held to
just course. On the basis of reports of
both the superintendent and the court of
inquiry it is clear that the academy
needs a tonal injection which will spread
new view throughout it's personnel as
to the practice of fraud. deception, skulk-
ing, threats, lodging, surreptitious visits,
etc. by young men who are presumed
to be acquiring an education specially de-
signed to fit them for profession whose
loftiest principle of conduct is that of
personal honor"
Officers of the army and navy have
always been and still lare worthily ac-
counted by the American people as repre-
sentatives of the highest qualities of man.
hood-as gentlemen in the fullest sense
of the word. That some one should &C.
casonally fall from this splendid heighth
only establishes thereby the credit of 9TH
ers. But more such high-class men could
not well be expected in the future from
any body of students habituated to prac-
tees intended to save themselves from ex-
posture of scholastic deficiencies when put
to the test of examinations. The fact that
culpability of students is held to be due
in some measure to a pernicious system
connected with the methods of instruction
does not help matters on the whole in the
slightest degree. The information in the
official reports, as well as the recommen-
da.tons of all investigators. shows that the
academy requires a thorough overhauling
as regards both perception and perform
ance of duty.
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THE TEXAS TEMPERAMENT

From the Louisville Courier Journal
These are stirring days in Texas. Bor-
der sentiment thrills hearts to which it
is a heritage.
The Texas temperament still is rather
red b,ooded. Progress has forced aban-
donment of the old-fashioned custom of
dealing with cattle thieves, and the sup
preston of the picturesque ruffian with
the six shooter at his belt and the ner-
vous trigger finger, who lounged at the
bar or in the gambling house in state of
adequate preparedness. Texas nowadays
is a great, thriving state whose cities
grow rapidly, yet soidly, like eastern
centers of population, and unlike the boom
has been taken over by scientific agricul-
ture. The lanky long-horned Spanish cat
tie are as much out of date as the cowboy
in buckskin breeches with his bride reins
In his teeth and barker in each hand
shooting up a crossroads town consisting
of three barrooms and a postoffice But
there still is a nerve in the Texas finger
which witches at the thought of a Mex
lean near the border playing the role OF
bad "hombre" The veneer Of civiliza-
ton, as the term is understood on Broad
way, covers the Texan without a wrinkle.
fitting snugly over the rougher fiber But
it cracks and peels easily if the breeze
from the south bears the odor of a
greaser.
If the Texans were allowed a free hand
they would right gladly cross the border
without federal assistance to settle their
affair with the Mexican raiders.
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A MONTHS TRAINING
From the Pittsburg Sun.

From the Pittsburg Sun.
Reports from the Plattsburg camp indi-
cate that wonderful results are being at
tanned by the regular army officers who
are training the business and professional
men who wanted to be prepared for sol
diering. General Wood, it is said, is most
enthusiastic, claiming that the progress
the men have made is remarkable. The
desire now is to show the country what
is possible to be achieved by teaching.
General Wood is making every effort to
induce the President and some 100 or more
of the most important men of the govern
ment to journey to Plattsburg and see
for themselves.
There is demand from Chicago and far
Their west that military camps similar to
the one at Plattsburg be established SO
that men of the middle and far west can
have the benefits of the training without
being compelled to make the long jour-
ney east. To place the government au-
thorities in the right frame of mind to
grant these requests and to take a greater
general interest in the citizen soldiery
question is General Woods object.
| A proposition has been made that before
the camp is broken up month hence a
day be given over to parade of New
York city. This event would draw to the
metropolis thousands of people anxious to
see in khaki the weil-known men OF the
United States. The sight of the lawyers,
doctors, statesmen, diplomats and others
bronzed by exposure. attired in the trap
pings of private soldiers. marching like
veterars of many fnorfbs' training would
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Steel Mills at Full Capacity

Activity in the industrial field is
unapated, and general trade continues
to improve Notwithstanding the grave
international problems confronting the
Washington government. Steel mills
are operating at practically full ca
pacity for the first time in several
years.
Crop conditions are not as salts
factory as they were in July, but there
will be bumper corn harvest never
theless and the winter wheat yield
was above the billion bushel mark-a
new high record.
AS for cotton there has been a
marked deterioration in the past few
weeks. The governments estimate
had been 12,5OO,0OO bales. bit when
the next report is issued the estimate
will probably drop 100000 bales.
Alabama's cotton crop will be some
thing like 100000 bales.
On the whole the business outlook
based on large harvests and the i'm
mense demand for iron and steel prod
ucts, is brighter than even the most
optimistic prophet had predicted ii
would be three months ago
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William Wilkinson, an Englishman orig
inally organized the celebrated Creusot
gun works in France for engineering pur-
poses. This was in 1856. The London
Chronicle states that the works then be-
longed to company in which Louis XIV
had an interest and were known as the
royal foundry. The Creusot plant was
nationalized by the government during
the French revolution and when Napoleon
was Emperor he kept 1t running to sup
Ply guns and ammunition for his armies
In 1915 it became bankrupt. A new COM
pany was formed, with the assistance of
English capital, and the works were OPP
Grated until they were acquired by the
present proprietors, the Schneiders, in
1886. The third generation of this family,
whose name is more Teutonic than
French, is now in charge of the Creusot
factories and they are to France what
the Krupps are to Germany Like their
famous German rivals, they operate kim
dred industries in connection with the
production of arms and engineering ma
chnery.
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A RIVER OF INK

From the st. Louis Globe Democrcat
You have heard embryo writer's COM
plain that they had wasted rivers of
ink" on unfeeling editors. Did you ever
hear of a sure enough river of INK? No,
1t is not the Mississippi. just .elow the
mouth of the Missouri. 1t is a stream
that was discovered in Algiers, during
the French conquest of that African coun-
try in 1880. The water is almost black,
and SO acrid in taste that it cannot be
used for domestic purposes. A curious
fact concerning the stream is that it is
formed by the confluence of two creeks
whose water is not black
Among the soldiers of the invading army
there We're several chemists, and the
secret of the stream was not difficult to
reveal. However, the scientists were
greeted with shouts of derision when they
announced that the murky water was an
inferior grade of writing ink. There are
numerous varieties of ink but that which
is most common is composed of gallo acid
and iron The colorng matter in the
bluish-black writing fluid is known as
gallotannate of iron, and the acid part
of it is commonly derived from oak gals.
In A,giers, the fannie acid has its source
in a peat swamp. The water in most of
the creeks in the low country is brackish
and disagreeable, because of this tannin,
which communicates it. At one place, to-
ward the Mediterranean, one of these
swamp drains flows into a creek that has
made its way through the iron-bearing
soil of the mountains 1t holds so muo .
in suspension that the water is tawny in
color A hundred feet beyond the confiu-
ence it is black as ink"
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Establish the Bank Here

The efforts of F. l. Derby of Ward,
Ala, and a group of southern cattle
raisers to organize cattlemen's bank
should be met more than half way by
the people of Birmingham and every
encouragement possible given SO that
this institution may be established
here.
While details of the new organiza
ton have not been perfected, those
leading the movement were frank to
Estate Saturday night that enough
progress had been made to insure its
success. One of the points to be de-
cided upon is the new banks location
1t is understood that the prevailing
sentiment of the men in this move
ment is in favor of Birmingham. But
1T is understood also that they feel
some hesitancy about it, for as vet
not only no local citizen or group
OF citizens but no civic organization
has come forward with any sugges-
lions or encouragement regarding the
location of the bank in Birmingham.
In the rush of other matters, this
most important enterprise probably
has been overlooked. The Chamber of
Commerce, Business Mems league and
all civic and semi-civic organizations
and influential citizens now should act
at once.