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FARMERS Wife
TOO ILLT0 WORK
A Weak, Nervous Sufferer
Restored to Health by Ly-
dia E. Pinkharn's Veg
etabie Compound.

Kasota, MINI. or am glad to say
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
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is responsibie for our passion for inverted bowls
that resemble the sky in vast and hollow majesty
is an open question. 1t is a, fact however, that
we regard the atmospheric content of public
building something desirable quite apart from
its availability for human just as we have learn
ed to attach concrete value to the ability to emit
consecutive speech quito apart from the matter il
any conveyed thereby.
This penchant for the construction of mammoth
abodes of silence and oxygen is but one mani
festation of the rather universal desire to meet
the immediate demands Of the eye rather than the
more particular requirements of the mind. This
desire is to be met with at every turn and its
votaries range from the perpetrators of vers lbre
to that strange school of philosophers who believe
that terrify foreign foes by pulling ugly
faces at them. In the case of such trifles, how
ever, librc the public realizes that it
is paying for the greater and receiving the less
and no harm is done. But those who are the
nations guardians in matters aesthetic and other
wise should fight tooth and nail against any ten
dency to provide posterity with the shadow rather
than the substance. with oratory in stucco rather
than sermons in stone.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13
KENTUCKY ASSOCIATION
TO BANQUET TOMORROW
Representative Shirley Will Be Toast
master at New Ebbitt Affair.
Many Speakers.

Final arrangements for the first big
Kentucky State Association banquet here
were completed yesterday. The affair
will be held tomorrow night at the New
Ebbitt. Representative Swager Shirley
will preside as toastmaster. Replies from
several Of the speakers had not been re-
ceived last night. but the following Ken
lucky members of Congress had signified
their acceptance: Representative ]. c.
Cantrill. Allen W. Barkley. r. Y.
Thomas. jr., and W. ]. Fields, and Sena-
tor ]. C. w. Beckham.
The executive committee that has the
arrangements In charge are Joseph E.
Goodkey. president: Robert w. Durham.
vice president: Miss Edna Earl Johnston.
corresponding secretary: Anderson II.
Tackett. financial secretary; Bosier Cas-
tie. treasurer; A. P. Owen. r. E. Adams,
Ward Savage. DR.. c. n. Chapman, Miss
LYDIA L. Parker. Miss Minnie L. Parker,
and Mrs. j. II. Pellan. r. W. Hun is
chairman OF the reception committee:
Miss Edna Earl Johnston OF the music,
committee. and Mrs. J. II. Psllsn Of the
n0HnR1al0gnn0k Aognrnietnn
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The Heralds Amy and Navy Department
Most Complete Published Washington

: Austria II ungsry would join Germany In
making war on the United States, the
Teutonic invading force would consist oi
is5,0oc. all of which would be landed In
the t'nited States within twenty days
This would be followed by another army
about a month later of 10000. making
the force brought against the United
States, according to conservative esti-
mates. close to 10000.
The japanese first invading force would
consist of about 10o.eo0 and the second
OF 10000. The first force would land In
California in about twenty-five days, and
the second in forty-one days. France
first expedition would consist of loo. .OOO
and the second of 2iS. IS. Italy has trans
portation facilities for two expeditions.
The first would consist of 9l.OIo men to
reach the United States in eighteen days.
and the second of l36.0IO to reach here
i'm thirty-fve days. Even Italy would
be a formidable foe il the United States
lost control of the sea in a war with
her.
1t is contended by the War College that
these estimates will grow as the mer-
chant marine OF the different countries
increase. BY the close of the European
war. it is believed. Britain will have
millions of trained troops. and with her
immense transport facilities she would
be more formidable foe than the CEN
trail powers.
Capt William S. Smith has reported
for duty at the Navy Department and
has taking up the heroic task of separat-
ing the wheat from the chaff in the great
mass OF inventions and suggestions that
have come TO the Secretary of the Navy
since the announcement of the policy by
which civilians are to be called upon for
suggestions in increasing the efficiency of
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13

the navy. Capt. Smith will be attached
| to the office Of the Secretary of the Navy
and will work with the bureaus and the
Naval Advisory Board in handling the in
ventions and suggestions.
Since many of the inventors have
sent models Of their efforts. Capt.
Smiths room has taken on the ap-
pearsnce of a branch of the Patent
Office. Many of the inventions are
now in use in the navy. while others.
it is apparent at the first glance. are
not adapted for use with the fleet.
Some of the inventions and sugges-
tions have already been tried out by
the department All will be given
serious consideration.
1t will be probably ten days before
the Roosevelt naval personnel board
will be ready to submit its recommen-
dation to the Secretary of the Navy.
The members of the board have been
kept so busy preparing material for
submission to the naval committees
in connection with the new building
program that IL has been impossible
to hold a meeting during the past
week.
In the meantime committees of the
board have been working upon the
staff corps features of the bill. The
Assistant Secretary has instructed the
committees to prepare plans by which
the principle of promotion by selec-
tion can be applied to staff officers
as we'll as officers of the line. This
is not an easy task. since different
prevail in the staff from the
line.
One OF the most troublesome prob
lens is the adjustment of the increase
in the staff corps to correspond with
that of the line, as agreed to in the
board.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13
Large Effects at Small Prices.

1t IS commonly supposed that the custom OF
putting imitation two-story fronts on one-story
houses is confined to our Western frontier towns
That is error. We of the effete East do not
go about the task of producing large effects al
small prices with the same naivete does the
hairy pioneer. Our methods are more subtle, but
the result is the same. The effect is produced OF
there being something there which a closer in
vestigation discovers to be nonexistent.
1t is perhaps only natural that Washington
should be the home par-excellence of the hollow
pretense. Some of OUR government officials, when
one comes to think of it, must at one time or an
other and often enough continuously 60 through
the pretense of being qualified to fill positions
which they have acquired by purely political serv-
ices. Then there is Congress. The average Con-
gressmans life is one continual round of oratori-
cal pretense. He is either engaged in pretending
to Congress that Slumgullion Hollow is. not the
most insignificant aggregation of uncerebrating
bucolcs in the entire alfalfa belt or in pretending
to the Slumgullble agricuturists that their ances
trail hollow is the cradle of the and the Gbra-
tar of stalwart democracy. Then again there arc
those diplomatic triumphs which are the apothe-
oses of materialized nothingness. Washington has
a monopoly of these. .
But it is with material rather than with in
telleetual delusions that we are now concerned.
And Washington still retains the undefeated title
Take the case Of our public buildings. The idea
of enclosing the maximum of cubic emptiness with
in roof and four walls has become a perfect
obsession to the Washingtonian. Consider the ro-
tunda of the National Museum. 1t is sublimated
emptiness! Consider the hundreds of lesser ro-
tundas, hemicycies. porticoes and what not Temp
pies to the Goddess Vacuum! Doughnuts in
store!
But above all consider the Gatherarium, or
whatever the technical name is of the Union Sta
ton. That is mans sublimest monument to
Room. There are gathered together within four
walls and roof the greatest aggregation Of cubic
yards of atmosphere ever seen in captivity. 1t is
Hiatus made visible to the naked eye. Omar
Khayyam speaks Of that inverted bowl we call the
sky" WhssAer The popplanty of the Persian peex|
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13

The year 1S22 brought the season In
which choice WAS once more to be made
Of President. and other matters wait
ed a little until the choice should bt
certainly known.
A novel variety was lent TO the field
Of contest by the entrance OF new
party.
In 1896 one william Morgan. of north.
western New York. had advertised a
book which should make known the Sc
crets of Freemasonry. and had been kid
mapped and was never seen again
Popular Indignation had fixed upon the
xociety OF Freemasons itself as respon-
sble for the crime. and an anti-Ma sonic
party mad sprung up. whose object II was
to Keep Freemasons out OF places OF
public trust.
II hnd spread with surprising stir and
perxistency from State to State. and in
September. 1881. II summoned national
convention OF its psrtisans to display It's
strength and name candidates of its own
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency
The regular parties followed its cue.
They also chose delegates out of the sew
eral states to meet in nominating con-
vertions and put their candidates in the
field by fovmal vote.
The National Republicans nominated
Mr.. Clay. now leader Of the Senate and
uuQuestioned leader OF the party.
The Democrats nominated Gen. Jack
son. as OF course, for a second term.
and with him. for Vice President. not
Mr.. Calhoun. but his own chosen lieu
tenant, Mr.. Martin Van Buren,.
The vote OF the electors was decisive,
ss before. But six states voted for Mr..
Clay (Massachusetts. Rhode Island. Con-
necticut. Delaware. Maryland and Ken
tucky): seventeen voted for Gen. Jack
son. Vermont gave her votes to the can
didates Of the Anti-Masons. The electors
Of South Carolina. chosen as always by
the legislature. held punctiiously OF
from all parties and voted for candidates
OF their own.
The election over, Gen. jackson once
more chosen. her party ties broken. her
principles OF opposition still unsanctioned
and untested. South Carolina proceeded
with her radical program of redress.
On the 2ith OF November QS52) a State
summoned for the purpose
and formed upon the model Of a consti-
tutional convention. adopted and promul-
gated . formal Ordinance OF Nullifica-
tion. which declared the tariff acts of
Is2S and 1ss2 null and void and without
force of law within the jurisdiction of
South Carolina. and gave solemn warn
Ing to the rest of the country that any
attempt on the part Of the Federal gov
ernment to enforce the nullifed laws
within her limits would sever South
Cardinals connection with the Union and
force her to organize q separate govern
ment.
The legislature of the State Immediately
ook steps looking toward a resumption
" some of the powers before formally
to the Union. and provided
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13

The President attended services at the
Central Presbyterian Church yesterday
morning. accompanied by Miss Margaret
Wilson, Miss Helen Woodrow Bones and
MI John A. Wilson In the afternoon
the President and Mrs. Nomman Gait
took short motor drive.
| The Vice President and Mrs Marshal II
are arriving this afternoon from their
home at Indianapolis where they were
detained by the Illness Of Mrs. Marshall,
who Is now convalescing. They will
spend the coming winter at the New
Willard Hotel, where they some time
ago selected an apartment which has
been not only refurnished to accord
with Mrs Marshalrs taste. but in some
degree reconstructed to meet the require
ments and convenience Of both the Vice
President and Mrs. Marshall
They spent several days here in Septcm-
Der selecting the furnishings and making
their arrangements for the winter In
/ whose social activities they expect to
take q prominent part. While domestic
in their tastes. they have enjoyed their
social life at the Capital and have helped.
through their hospitalities. to make
many friends for the administration.
The taste of the Vice President and
Mrs. Marshall prevails throughout the
WHICH hdr dhNd"s a
like atmosphere. The big upholsted arm
chairs which they prefer to the newer
invention. or to the reconstructed older
models OF the days of our Puritan all
cestors. have a place both in Mrs. Mar
shall's drawing room and in the Vice
Presidents library.
The drawing room. where Mrs Mar
shall will receive on Wednesdays as soon
as she is strong enough to do so. Is In
green and old rose with pearl gray
psnsled walls. Among the furnishings
of the Vice Presidents library are In
stalled some Of his favorite pieces from
his diana polls home. including a hand
someIy carved. low. round teakwood
table.
The Vice President and Mrs. Marshall
have In mind a series Of large evening
receptions for which they will reserve
the drawing-room suite frequently used
for dinners to the President. They gave
a similar series winter before last. which
were declared to be more like the old
time parties of score Of years ago
than anything Washington has known
in recent seasons.
Mrs. Clark and Miss Louise Clark. wife
and daughter of Capt. George r. Clark.
L. 3. N. will be at home tomorrow after
noon and the second Tuesday of each
month during the season at the West
Mrs. Calvin de Witt will have as her
guests for the winter at her home. MI
y street. her daughter. Mrs. Robert NJ.
Blanchard. wife OF Capt. Blanchard. l.
s. A., and their children.
Judge and Mrs. Gray entertained at
dinner last evening for Miss Margheritta
the debutante daughter of Com
mander and Mrs. Tillman.
Mai. and Mrs Manus McCioskey gave
\ dinner party Saturday evening. when
their guests were Capt. and Mrs Mar
vetts Lieut. and Mrs. Philip Sheridan.
Lieut.. and Mrs Edwin Parker and Lieut.
and Mrs. Kilburn-
Miss Mary Howry entertained num-
,er OF guests at luncheon yesterday aft
.rnoon.
Mr.. Frank II. Hitchcock. former Post
master General. arrived in Washington ,
yesterday and is at the Willard until
after the Republican National Committee
Meeting Mr. John W. Griggs. of Pater-
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13
Early Demseraiic Convention.

Not since 1888 have the Democrats opened
their national convention date SO early as
that chosen for the gathering of 1916 June a. In
primitive times May was the month favored by the
party, and in the troubled days of 1860 April had
the honor. Recently July has seemed to the ma
tional committee to be the best month, but the
Baltimore convention called for June Is, and
that OF next year will beg eleven days earlier
than it did. We believe the hope that the St.
Louis affair will not be SO protracted as its i'm
mediate predecessor will not be interpreted as par
tisan factonal.-New York Sun.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13
Attitude Toward Oneself.
by JOHN ID. BARRY

To be able to be alone. to face oneself scrcnely
to look at ones demerits without being undul.
cast down or ashamed TO recognize oneself as tn,
small, unimportant being the individual must al
ways be- and yet to be glad of life with its oppor
unities for change and for struggle, for defeat
for achievement, is to know that the feet
1 on the main road Now all that is TO be done j,
| to keep on.
The periods OF sclf-contemplation must be bfief
Otherwise they will become menacng. What ].
healthy in them will show a tendency TO decay. to
become morbid
| There is besides the danger Of what has beer
happily described philosophical lethargy. When
self-contemplation even self-reproof leads to men
tai ideness it is laziness pretending to itself
1t is inaction disguised as reflection. 1t is slow
ing up of the whole nature. physical, mental and
moral. process like dry heat, sapping vitality.
One of the best women I have known
says: "If weren't careful about what | do and
what | think | shouldn't be able to look at myself
in the mirror"
She is gifted with eyes uucominonly keen.
When she looks at herself she sees. not merely a
pretty face with regular features and healthy
skin. but she what is really behind. Her eyes
cradle her to look into the eyes Of her soul, the
only reality.
So many women are satisfied if they can only
see that their faces seem beautiful.
In this regard, they are like most of mankind
in its attitude toward itself. placing much higher
value seeming than being. But it is being
that we always have to face in ourselves.
No matter how cleverly may resort to de-
ception, it is being that must live by And it
is being that makes the award. -
So many of US try to seem right We make life
difficult by riding two horses. If we were only
L
ton and management Instead of finding inev-
table failure, should find certain success. Being
would make seeming take care of itself. Indeed,
no account at all.
How can start in this matter of being? How
can we make our house healthy?
The moment ask ourselves such questions
we begin. The first thing to do is to look over the
house. We likely to find that it needs air and
light. Lift up the shades and open the window.
1t is marvellous how much can be done by a
mere act of will. Perhaps we have forgotten even
to seem cheerful. With determination the shades
will go up Of their own accord and the windows
will rise mysteriously. The very walls will take on
a brighter color.
Perhaps we literally need to put prin-
ciples into practice. The physical shades and win
dows and wall paper may clamor for attention.
Let call on all the aids from outside. They are
a multitude
Now that resolved to be cheerful our
selves fit for cheerful company. In fact
we make for cheerfulness. And in this mood the
cheerful things call from the world OF beauty
and health. Walks grow inviting. with all the
cheerfulness radating out of nature. We need not
be afraid of going back to our house. 1t is a
much pleasanter house than it was BEFORE much
more habitable. In real sense it is becoming
nome
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13

Tor putting the State In readiness to re-
sIst coercion by force OF arms. Mr.
Hayne was recalled from Washington to
become governor Of the State; and Mr.
calhoun resigned the vice presidency to
take his place upon the floor Of the SEN
ate. that he might there contest every
inch Of the ground In debate.
rne President acted as every one who
really knew him knew that he would act
Opposition itself would In any case have
been sufficient Indictment to action: but
now the tonic Of the election was In his
veins. The natural. STRAIGHTFORWARD, un-
hesitatinx viGor of the man dictated
what should be done.
Please give my compliments to my
friends in your State" said the imperioi,s
old soldier to q member Of the House
from South Carolina who asked his COM
niands. and say to them that IL a single
drop of blood shall be shed there In on
position To the laws OF the United States
will hang the first man I lay nv hand
on engaged in such reasonable conduct,
upon the first tree I can reach"
No one doubted that he meant what he
said. Before South Carolina's convention
met he had instructed the collector Of the
port Of Charleston to collect the duties
resistance or no resistance; and when the
Ordinance of Nullincstion reached him
he replied to It with a proclamation
whose downright terms no man could
misread.
For little space he argued; but only
for little. For the most part he COM
manded. The laws Of the United
States" he said. must be executed. I
have no discretionary power on the sub
ject-my duty is cmphatically pronounced
In the constitution Those who told you
that you might peacefully prevent their
execution deceive you. Their OBJ
tect IL disunion. and disunion by armed
force Is treason"
II was the doctrine of Webster in the
mouth Of a soldier. Congress voted the
President full power to deal with the
crisis as circumstances should demand
Even then South Carolina did not finch
or draw back: but men who loved peace
pressed forward on both sides to effect a
Mr.. Clay planned and urged measures
Of accommodation with all the skill and
ardor and persuasiveness which made
him SO great . master of men. and the
tariff which was q thorn In South Caro-
lins's side. though not in principle aban-
doned. was radically modified
A schedule OF progressive annual reduc-
tions was agreed upon (March. 1880 which
should by July. 1872. bring practically all
duties to the uniform rate Of twenty Der
cent.
The Ordinance OF Nullihcation was first
suspended. then repealed: and the con-
fict between the States and the Union
was for a little while put OF.
TOmorrow-JacksOn . Radical.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13

When Samuel Gompers appears before the
grand jury to testify regarding the unneutral and
dsloyal activities of "Labor's National Peace
Council" he will take oath tell the whole truth.
And it will be recalled that several months ago
Mr.. Gompers declared that the American people
would be shocked and amazed if they knew the
whole truth about foreign attempts to coerce and
corrupt the American workmen.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13
BY r.. ID. JOHNS.

! In preparing its statement of prop
er military policy for the United States
the War College has taken into con-
sideration the capacity of the tran
sports of the great powers. These in
clude merchant ships that any OF the
countries could seize in the event OF
war. and use to transport soldiers to
| this country.
To make its estimate conservative.
II is understood that the War College
divided the tonnage of the different
. nations by two. Further than this, the
estimates include supplies for three
months. the necessary animals and
space for artillery, aeroplanes, and all
the necessary auxiliaries of a we'll
organized army. The army regula-
tions of the United States have been
used in estimating the capacity of
ships where it had been impossible to
secure the regulations OF the country
in question.
or course. Great Britain leads in the
transport capacity, but no estimate is
included in the War College table of
the size Of the army that Great Brit
ain could send to the United States, as
at the beginning of the war Great Brit
ain did not have sufficient trained
troops to make up a second expedi-
tion. The strength of the trained
troops in Great Britain at the begin
ming of the European war was 170,
900. These could be landed at any
point on our coast or in Canada in
fourteen days. The second expedition
would reach the United States in
days, but the War Col
-iege did not take this expedition into
cons liberation, as it has no basis upon
which to estimate the number of
trained troops that in the future could
be mobilized by Great Britain.
The first expedition from Germany, &C.
cording to the estimates of the War Col
lege. would consist of trained army
Of $4,000 and could be landed in the
United States within fifteen days. II
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13

The Canadians finding fault with the Pres;.
dent for his indiscriminate use of the term,
America" and United States" in his address to
Congress. 1t is quite conceivable that there are
Canadians who not only claim the right to ~ealI
themselves Americans but also to put their pas
sionate sympathy with one or the other side in
the great European conflict above their regard for
the peace and dignity of the United States" In
times like these even the scholarly President must
needs be careful in his choice Of language.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13
The Very Reason.

Henry Weismann. native Of Germany, who
left that country for the United States, presunl-
ably because he could do better for himself here
has very poor opinion of the Presidents dcnunci-
alton of reasonable practices. eff Wilson had
known" he says, that he had to deal with united
body of German patriots, he would never have de-
livcred that message" But that is exactly what he
did know; he knew that there was a united body
of German patriots here, where there ought TO be
only united body OF American patriots.-PhiIa-
delphia Record.
The Washington herald., 1915-12-13

So Baron Zwedinek passes the buck to DR..
Dumba in that little matter of advising Consul
Gen Won Nuber to purchase neutral passports
for homesick German soldicrs Remembering the
doctors vociferous assertions of lamblike inno-
cence this strikes us as rather hard.