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Evening star., 1915-06-20
Orienta lAthletics.
From the Boston Herald.


Though 1t appears well agreed that
the 1915 Olympic games, whlch were
to he held in Berlin, will not be held IN
that city or any other, it is OF interest
to know that this is the week OF the
far eastern olympics, which are being
held in Shanghai. A quarter-mile Gin
der track. on the American plan. was
built for the purpose. The Americans
and English there are the prime NOV
ers In the games. but the participants
are of all the many races and colors
that the far east can muster. Japan
sends a base ball team, tennis team,
a swimming team, and track and field
athletes by the score. Osake sends it's
wonderful distance runners to win the
marathon. From north China come
star sprinters and weight men. and a
basket ball team which is expected to
win the championship. The Philippines
are well represented by native entrants
In all events. Hawaii sent over its
hest base ball team to the tournament.
Korea. Formosa and south China are
represented. In connection with the
games there is a rally of the Boy Scout
Organizations Of that part of the world.
All this is of an interest wider than
the sporting world. 1t shows the in
fuence of America in the east.
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Cherry Kearton. New York:
Appleton & Co.

This Reconsideration record of ad l.
venture in Central Africa is strikingly
different from most other accounts of
explora tion in the jungles of mat con-
tinent. The chief source of this differ
ence appears to lie in the fact that
lated. cave men. Here is a pair of alert
five times out of hundred, find no de-
weapon more menacing than kindly
camera or a friendly pen. One of the
results of this novel method of out
faring is a travel book on Africa that
is more entertaining. just as thrilling
and more informing than any other
book on this subject within recall. Mr..
kearton, famous the world over for
his camera work in the wild, adds
nearly two hundred remarkable pic
lures here to equally remarkable pen
pictures by Mr. Barnes. Having seen
about all there was to see along this
trail from coast to coast. the writer
has set the journey down here in an
amazing wealth of graphic detail. And
these details are by no means of the
commonly dry and cataloguinG sort.
They are, instead. little fragments and
snatches of African life, in its human
as well as in its animal aspects, lifted
out and put down bodily into this vol
ume In addition to his other gifts
as adventurer and chronicler, Mr..
Barnes possesses the gift of humor and
that of an unconquerable good humor.
In order to meet the special purpose of
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sides, possessed of the power to or
gantze men and things into coherent
units of high usefulness. To the orgapiz-
ing power of Prof. Baird Is due the ex-
pansion and development of the Smith
sonian Institution and the National
Museum along lines that have culmi-
mated in their present scope and utility
, To him is due also the inception and
projection of the United States fish
commission. Mr. Dali, for many years
associated with Prof. Baird in his work,
terial. wrought a finely adequate story
of the naturalists life. BY means of a
free and discriminating use of Prof
Baird's journals and personal letters
the history takes on in large degree
the immediate touch of autobiograph ply. 1t
| is by this use that the fine and low
able qualities of the man himself
stand out here in such gratifying re-
lief. Through the more usual form of
biography. that of narrating the facts
of ones life, Mr.. Dali reviews the sci
entific. literary and official achieve
ments of Prof. Baird. This is a>distin-
guished piece of work and most val
liable contribution to the history of
scientific research in America.
THE DEMOCRACY OF THE CONSTI-
TUITION: And Other Addresses and
Essays. BY Henry Cabot Lodge.
New York: Charles Scribners Sons.
Washington: Brentanos
These essays by Senator Lodge sum,
in the main. to study of the Consti
tuition for the purpose of making clear
the essential democracy of this funda-
mental law. and for the further pur
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the president of the Japan Society In
New York, a society whose purpose is
The promotion of friendly relations
between the United States and Japan
and the diffusion among the American
people of more accurate knowledge
of the Island Kingdom. its aims, ideals.
arts, sciences, industries and economic
conditions"
THE NOTEBOOK OF AN AT"TACHE:
Seven Months in the War Zone. By
Eric Fisher Wood. Illustrated. New
York: The Century Company.
When the war broke out Mr.. Wood was
in Paris studying architecture and at once
offered his services to the American en-
bassy as volunteer attache. which
were thankfully accepted inasmuch as
Amba ssador Herricks force was mad
euuate to handle the great rush of ap-
plications for advice, documents and
other assistance from Americans. Mr..
ca ring for the Germans, Austrians and
Hungarians in Paris who were ordered
to depart or to go into detention camps.
In this manner he got into the midst Of
affairs and proved himself so useful
that he was later permitted to go on
observation trips to the front. in the
course of which he noted conditions
thoroughly. In this volume are repro
duced extracts from his diary which
yiyidly describe conditions in the
French capital during the early days
of the war. On one of his trips he, in
company with American military off,
GERS, went over the ground covered by
the battle of the Marine, SO soon after
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EMPTY POCKETS" FOUNDATION
Author Hughes States That His
Novel Is Based Upon Fact.
To the Editor of The Sta,


In your issue of May 30 there is n
review OF my novel. Empty Pockets"
In Whlch. after words of praise for
which l am grateful. it is stated that
the novel is. unfortunately. founded
on a physical impossibility. Medical
records may be searched in vain for a
case OF rigor mortis setting in SO in
simultaneously as to make a captive
through the clinching of dying mans
hands"
Please permit me to say that / based
this incident upon actual fact man
OF international eminence died thus
some years ago. and held woman
prisoner by the hair Her screams
brought in persons who had to cut her
nair to release her. This unpublished
history had haunted me for long
time before l found an opportunity to
make use of its intensely dramatic
power In my novel i changed the
scene and the circumstances. of course,
and made the woman cut her own hair
in order to escape without discovery.
l could tell you the names of the man
and woman, and you would instantly
recognize them and realize that the
published circumstances confirm the
unpublished detail. You would also
recognize the well known name of the
person who told me the facts In the
| case, and who happened to arrive on
| the spot almost Immediately after the
death. i must ask. however. to be ex-
| cused from divulging the names, sus-
p1c1ous as You may think it.
Furthermore, 1 not only made q thor
| ough study of the relevant medical
literature, but I had my text revised
by a very famous physician, who as
sured me that the incident as it stands
is scientifically correct. possible and
plausible.
May 1 ask you. then, to give this let.
ter the same publicity You gave to your
| reviewers damning comment that nv
whole novel was based on an impossi-
bility? Such a charge is a serious one
to me. since reality is the corner stone
with all my might to construct in
Empty Pockets q novel which should
not only suggest the enormous intric-
acy, variety and interfacing of New
York life. but should always be- as the
French say, reasoned and documented.
RUPERT HUGHES
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IN HERE have been forty-two Secre-
taries of State under the twenty
q eight men who have filled the Of
flee of President of the United States
Several of them have resigned their
portfolio, the most significant and SEN
sa ational retirements from the post OF
Secretary Of State being, perhaps, those
of Thomas Jefferson from the cabinet
of President Washington in 1894; Mar
tin Van Buren from Jackson's cabinet
in 1881; James G. Blaine from the cabi-
net of Benjamin Harrison in 1892, on
the eve of the national republican con-
vention. to become a candidate for the
presidency. and William ]. Bryan from
the cabinet of President Wilson.
Three men served President Wash
ington as Secretary of State. four
served under President Jackson, four
under President Tyler, three under Nc
Kinley and three under Roosevelt.
The first Secretary of State was
Thomas Jefferson, who served in the
cabinet of President Washington from
1889 to 1894, when he was succeeded
by Edmund Randolph of Virginia, who
in 1895 was succeeded by Timothy
Pickering of Massachusetts,. Edmund
Randolph had served in Washington s
ca binet as Attorney General from the
beginning in 1889 to the date of his
succession to Mr.. Jefferson as Secre-
tary of State. Timothy Pickering had
been named by Washington as Post
master General in 1871 in succession to
the first Postmaster General, Samuel
Osgood, and Pickering was also WASH
ington's second Secretary of War.
Henry Knox of Massachusetts having
been the first and James McHenry OF
Maryland the third and last War Sec
retary under Washington. Timothy
Pickering also continued as Secretary
of State for three years during the
administration of John Adams, being
succeeded in 1900 by John Marshall.
Jefferson served two terms as Presi-
dent with one man as Secretary of
State, and that man was James Madi-
son. Madison as President used two
men as Secretaries of State-Rob-
ert Smith of Maryland and James Mon
roe of Virginia.
Monroe as President for eight years
had only one Secretary of State-John
Quincy Adams. Adams during his sin
gle presidential term had but one Sec
retary of State-Henry Clay.
jackson had four Secretaries of State,
who served about two years each.
They were Martin Van Bureau of New
York, Edward Livingston of Louisiana,
Louis McLane of Delaware and John
Forhyth of Georgia. John Forsyth
served under Martin Van Burens ad-
ministratioh as Secretary of State for
the full term.
Daniel Webster served as Secretary of
State under William Henry Harrison
and on the death of that gentleman
continued as Secretary of State under
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Cod" he wrote. land reverently vom-
tied"
trench I found the men drawn up in
line and the sergeants busy with the
roll call. Each mans rifle bristled with
the murderous knife-bayonet and there
was something in the glitter of every
pair of Scotch gray eyes and the taut-
ness about every frm-lipped mouth
that showed the tension of the moment.
Close to me huge young lieutenant,
ruddy checked and with but the faint
est of silky growths on his long upper
lip, switched at his roughened bare
knee with a little bamboo swagger
cane. He seemed oblivious Of the
stinging force Of the blows with which
he castigated his big, bare limb, blows
that left the skin criss- crossed with
lines, white and then red.
X
company spoke a few words to the
men, He was a stalwart man of me-
dunn height, perhaps forty years old.
Across his forehead an angry-looking
scar, obviously of recent origin, pull
sated lividly with the beat of his blood.
Like the lieutenant, he. too, wore his
sword sheathed at his side and welded
a timber little bamboo to emphasize
his words. These were short, simple
and to the point:
Men," he said, there's a big rush on
this morning. We will get our orders
to advance after the guns have pre-
pared the way. When 1t comes off
want every one of you to try to get as
far forward as he can. We will be
heavily supported, but many of us
won't get through. Those who don't
will have gone like men. They'll get
bit of their own back through those
who follow US. Keep your head. obey
every order you get, and stick 1t as
, long as you can. That's all"
AS II to punctuate the officers quiet
ly spoken address. there came one tre-
mendous crash-the voice OF the first
big gun to speak in preparation for the
scheduled event. Quickly the men took
their appointed places along the trench.
Again and again came that shocking
blast of sound, the earth trembled and
the very air seemed to quiver and tin
gle with electric energy.
In the mouth of one of the dugouts
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with a passageway leading back to the
communicating trenches I took shelter,
as though the very clamor Of those
British guns back of us was filled with
danger A couple of the cooks staff
Joined me, watching the steady, silent
lines of Highland laddies waiting for
the signal that would send them out
into the open to face the hellish blast
of steel hurled at them from the foe
mems trenches.
Gun after gun Joined in the prepara-
tory cannonade. The staccato crashes
became merged into one mighty. rum
bling bellow-a very mountain or
sound that beat down upon us in heavy
blows. engulfed us. shook us from head
to foot, made US reel and clutch at the
vibrating timbers Of the dugout to
keep from falling.
~
Whether or not the enemy was re-
spending with his big guns we could
not tell. The British batteries drowned
all other sound. That the Germans
were rakfng our trenches with rifle
and machine gun fire was obvious from
the bits of stone. splinters of wood
and showers of dust that blew down
from the edge of the parapet. One bull
let entered timber just over my head.
I was just able to detect the spiteful
little smack with which 1t penetrated
far into the hard. seasoned wood, leav-
ing as neat and round a little hole as
though it were drilled by an auger.
A little way down the trench young
Scot who had been whistling through
his teeth at his observation loophole
when I entered with breakfast, sudden
ly crumpled up and dropped from his
post, falling head first into the bottom
of the trench. Curiously the thought
flashed through me that he must have
hurt himself in the heavy fall. His
face was turned toward US as he lay
Imply there In the ditch. and then ]
noticed a red trickle oozing from a
hideous black spot in the center of his
forehead.
1 turned to shut out the sight and
found myself looking straight at the
point of a particularly well sharpened
bayonet and a malignant, copper coun-
tenance with slanting. Mongolian eyes,
surmounted by -brimmed felt
hat. Observing my involuntary start,
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this joyous spring day was about to be
desecrated in the fashion he described
So far the stiffness had been shattered
but once or twice by the crack of some
sniper's rifle or the distant rumble OF
guns at some far part of the line.
But even as we talked distinct evil
dences of something special in the wind
began to make themselves apparent
officers hurried up and down the trench
diving into and out of the communlcat-
ing lanes and saps. Groups of men
gathered around the clusters of rifles
resting on the trench shelf. Card games
and newspapers were abandoned and
each man went to work upon his equip
ment. setting every detail to rights.
had desire to peek outward toward
the enemy's lines before things became
hot. The corporal permitted me to
stand beside him on the shelf and peer
through the chinks in the sand bags
and sleepers. A narrow vista of an up
ward sloping meadow heightened out
before me. Here and there the field
was pock-marked with shell craters
and near the extreme left-hand edge of
the narrow picture a dead birch tree
broken by a shell, slanted its upper
half to the ground. From the fore
ground all the way 10 Where line OF
straggly pines shut off the sky the
plain was dotted with what looked like
bundles of faded old clothes. Some
were yellowish in tinge. but for the
most part they were blush gray.
with the coming of the morning
breeze 1 had detected In the trench a
faint, but horrible smell. AS l looked
out upon this little field the draught
blew strongly through the loophole and
brought with it the full force of that
indescribab bly, nauseating stencil. The
men below and beside me were used tC
it, 1 had, fortunately, only met 1t once
or twice before. 1t drove me from my
perch to take refuge In dugout used
as mems latrine.
In the comparatively delightful at
mosphere of this cresote-sprinkled re-
treat l was reminded of what an old
Italian ecclesiastic wrote of his feel
ings when he gazed upon the body OF
a feminine enthusiast, who, in he1
nunnery, had mutilated her body with
red-hot pincers. II gave thanks tc
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President Tyler until 184S. He was
succeeded for brief term by Hugh S.
way to Abel P. Upshur Of Virginia, who
was succeeded by John c. Calhoun.
+
Tylers cabinet was one of quick and
many changes, for in addition to four
Secretaries of State, he had four Sec
| retaries of the treasury-Thomas Ew-
ing of Ohio, who had been Secretary of
the Treasury under Tippacanoe Har-
rison; Walter Forward of Pennsylvanfa,
| John C. Spencer of New York and
George NJ. Bibb of Kentucky: He also
had four Secretaries of War, hve
neys General and two Postmasters
General. His War Secretaries were
John Mclean of Ohio John Z. Spencer
of New York. James NJ. Porter o! fehn
sylvania and William Wilkins OF
Pennsylvania. His navy Secretaries
were George E. Badger of North Caro-
lima, who had filled the post under Har-
rison; Abel P. Upshur of Virginia, ba-
vid Henshaw of Massachusetts,, Ihonas
w. Gilmer of Virginia and John \. Ma
son of Virginia. His Postmaster Cen
erals were Francis Granger or New
York and Thomas A. Wicklif of Ken
tucky and his Attorneys General We[s
John j. Crittendon of Kentucky; hugh
S. Legare of South Carolina ana 1ona
Nelson of Maryland.
Polk had one Secretary of state.
James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, ana
Taylor during his brief term was
served by John NJ. Clayton of Delaware;
Fillmore had two Secretaries OF
State Daniel Webster and Edward Ev-
erett. President Pierce was served
throughout his term by william l..
Marcy of New York, and Buchanan mad
two Secretaries of State. Lewis Case of
Michigan and jeremiah S. Black OF
Pennsylvania.
William H Seward remained Secre-
tary of State during the most trying
period of the nations career. and after
serving under Lincoln through his time
in Office held over under President
Johnson.
President Grant had two Secretaries
of State. Elihu B. Washburn Of Illinois
and Hamilton Fish of New York.
Hayes. Garfield, Arthur and Cleveland
in his first term had each one Secretary
of State. William NJ. Evarts of New
York. James G. Blaine of Maine, F. T.
Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware.
Benjamin Harrison had two Secre-
taries of State, Mr.. Blaine on his resig-
nation being succeeded by John w.
Foster of Indiana. Cleveland in his sec
ond term had two, Walter @. Gresham
of Illinois and Richard Olney of Massa-
chusetts.
Mckinley had John Sherman of Ohio
for a brief term and then William R.
Day ana sohn Hay. Roosevelt's pre-
miers were John Hay. Elihu Root and
Robert Bacon of New York. Philanders
c. Knox served President Taft
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the Ghurka relaxed into a flashing grin
and lowered his bayonet point to my
midriff. with a little gesture indicat-
ing how eagerly he was anticipating
the charge to come. Back of him
swarmed his comrades. all short, cop
per-colored little devils, with those vi
cious slanting eyes and brilliant smiles.
They were waiting to follow up the
Highlanders charge, and if there is
any moment dearer to the heart of one
of these half-Hindu and half Chinese
hillmen from northern India than walt
ing to be let loose on murder, it is in
the actual accomplishment of said OBJ
Big noise!" 1 shouted. Much hell.
you like?"
Johnny like fight" he responded,
using the name all Ghurkas give them
selves in the army. German damn
French damn. English good" BY which
he meant to convey that he bore no
love for any white men save the Eng
lish. for whom he would gladly fight
any time, any place. sentiment prob
ably religiously drilled into him in
India.
Further conversation was impossible
in that din, which by now had become
more terrific through the sharper and
still more staggering explosions near to
hand from shells hurled upon US by
the Germans. I stood in a daze. hang
ing as though for life itself to one OF
the supporting timbers. My thoughts
and feelings were jumbled into cha
otic. indefinable mass. I remember only
that 1 never in my life wanted more
to be somewhere else than where
was. But there seemed no immediate
escape. I could not go forward, and to
force my way back along the communi-
ating trench through that array of
evil grins and shiny, slanting eyes
seemed at the moment equally formida-
BILE. There was nothing to do but hang
on and hope for the best.
Who gave the word or how it was
given I don't know, but suddenly l
saw the waiting Highlanders scram-
bling up and over the front wall of the
trench. They leaped upon the little fir
ing shelf, raised their right feet to
wooden steps driven into the wall a
little higher up and hurled themselves
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Washington Boy Eye Witness of Charge From British Tr@me

Upward and over and out of sight.
Standing low in the communicating sap.
my last glimpse of those charging lad
dies was one of waving bare legs, fly
ing kits and funny little khaki trunks.
like those worn by track athletes.
One pair of such legs remained d.
rectly in front of me, one foot on the
shelf, the other raised to the little
step higher up. Another man seemed
to be trying to encourage those legs
parapet. He pushed at them moment
and then pulled the right foot off the
step to make room for himself. leaped
forward and out of sight. The DIS
turbed right foot dropped heavily and
Imply beside its mate. For moment
the two half bare limbs dangled down
the trench wall, then the knees gave
way slowly and a tattered kilt came
into view, catching one edge in the
wooden step driven In the wall;
The upper half of the body dropped
Imply sideways. For moment the
kilt held to the peg. the mans arms
swung aimlessly down to the ground
and his head lolled about with the race
toward us-that is, If one could call II
a face, for half was missing and the
other half was only crimson blot:
Then the kilt slipped from the peg and
the thing that had been a man col
lapsed into the bottom Of the ditch.
A moment later and I was almost
swept outward and over the parapet
myself by the rush of the Ghurka con-
tingent. Slant eyes ablaze with the
Joy of combat and almost every face
broadly a-grin, these little bloodhounds
of the Himalayan foothills swarmed
and scrambled by me, up and over the
trench wall. to face that driving rain
of steel which swept the plain beyond
The roar of the British guns had
dwindled. Came now mainly the fright
full clatter and blast of the German fire.
Their shrapnel shrieked and burst on
every side, their rifles clamored in an
incessant roar. and through 1t all came
the long-drawn, rafting drum roll OF
the Maxims, spraying steel upon the
charging Britons like so many deadly
garden hoses.
Shells were bursting all about us, In
and out of the trench. The cooks and
made our way backward through the
saps and communicating bitches and
dugouts. already filing with stin an,
other regiment of men going forward
to take up the charge. These were ter
ritorials-a London regiment-young
chaps recruited from all the peaceful.
prosaic ways of city life. But as they
swept past us to gain the firing trench
the unconquerable spirit of the Anglo
Saxon race shone in their eyes and
lurked in the angles of their set jaws.
For more than an hour the cooks and
myself hugged the walls Of the com
munication trenches while above and
around us ragged the conflict. Finally
we were pressed into service to aid in
loading the wounded into ambulances.
E. RICHARD SCHAYER.
Copyright. 1915, by the Wheeler Syndicate. Inc)