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The Washington herald., 1915-09-29
HISTORY BUILDERS.
A Notable Instance of Personal In
tearity.


Written expressly for The Washington Heradl
The late William B. Bacon, of Bos-
ton, was for many years the repre-
sentative In New England of the great
English banking house of Barring
Brothers, London. He was the father
of Robert Bacon. who became a part
ner in the house of ]. =. Morgan &
Co. of New York, and afterward Sec
retary of State in the latter part of
Theodore Roosevelt's second admins
tration and during the administration
of President Taft for three years Am
ba ssadOr to France.
William b. Bacon gained in Boston
high renown. First. for observing the
best standards of business as well as
of personal integrity and. second. be-
cause he maintained a singular. al
most eccentric modesty both in his
personal life and in his business as
sociations. Although he was the Bos-
ton representative of one OF the
worlds greatest international bank
ing houses. he maintained a most un-
Ostentatious office. making no display.
II was only through, the revelation
made by a Boston banker that it be-
came known to few persons of an
action performed by Mr.. Bacon which
exemplified his conception of what IN
tegrity and duty were. He hoped
that there would be no public knowl-
edge that he had performed this ACT.
requesting those who were the bene-
ficiaries of it to maintain silence.
Mr.. Bacon's father was for years
one of the prominent merchants OF
Boston. carrying on trade with the
far East. For a time he was pros
porous. but in one Of the great panics
preceding the civil war he met with
misfortune and was compelled to ask
the Indulgence of his creditors. Thirty
years afterward William B. Bacon. the
son. completed a work which he had
voluntarily undertaken. He began as
early a. IL was possible Tor him to do
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il to discover who the creditors of his
father were. what was the total
amount due each of them. and what
the interest upon that sum was Mr..
Bacon had a great deal of difficulty
perfecting complete list. Some OF
the creditors We're dead: some had de-
parted from Boston: the wherea bouts
of others were unknown. II was nee
essary. he believed. to learn who the
next of kin were to those who died
and also to discover where other cred
itors who had left Boston were then
living. IL took about thirty years to
obtain all the information that was
necessary. At last he got together
what he regarded as complete list
of the creditors of his father or the
heirs of those of the creditors who
had died Then he sent check for
the full amount of the indebtedness.
plus interest. to each Of these credit
ors or to the next of kin. requesting
that these payments be regarded as
confidential
Others who at one time were un-
fortunate in business. as for instance.
Levi p. Morton. Cyrus W. Field.
James r. Keene, Deacon" White, aft
erward having recovered fortunes. rec
ognized the moral obligation to pay
debts which bankruptcy proceedings
had relieved them from paying. and
sent checks to all of their cerditors.
But the case of Mr.. Bacon has proved
to be the only one In which a son as
sumed voluntarily obligations created
by his father who had been legally re-
lieved Of the payment of these obligs-
tions.E
Copyright l9i5. by =. J. Edwards. An rights
Seryed.l
Tomorrow Dr Edwads will tell Of
when the Silver Dollar Was a Rare
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nent by use either entire or IN part
what they owed, and would lose outright
what they had paid should the debts be
assumed by Congress.
The southern members did not wish
either to admit the inability of their
States to pay their debts or to make the
federal government a general providence
for the whole country in matters fnan-
cial, and a patron and friend, besides, OF
the money-lenders: and their opposition
defeated the measure by the narrow ma
jority of two votes.
The northern members were as reso-
lutely determined that the measure should
pass; and the heat Of the debates and the
bitterness of those who had lost In the
vote gave to affairs for a moment almost
a tone OF revolution
Mr. Hamilton cleared the storm by a
sudden stroke of astute mana cement.
The southern men were anxious that
the federal district which the constItu-
ton had directed should be secured as a
site for the Unions capital should be laid
out on the shores OF the Potomac. within
their easy reach and at a safe distance
alike from the importunate merchants
and money-lenders of the eastern ports
and from the too philanthropic Quakers
of the middle States. with their trouble
some and impracticable agitations for the
abolition of slavery.
Mr. Hamilton arranged that the two
measures should be associated. the as
sumption of the debts and the selection
of a federal district.
Two Virginian members consented to
vote for assumption if the northern men,
bcrs would vote for a capital on the Po-
tomac and both bills were passed.
TOmOrrOw-A Trying Test.
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In the prohibition sections OF Kentucky they
are manufacturing a drink known "Ole Hen
that is said to be potent that it makes Ken
tuekians who drink it eager to the Republican
ticket. "Olc Hen is constructed by taking one
peck of cornmeal,~ six pounds of brown sugar,
four of cayenne pepper, and ten gallons
Of rain water, and mixing them together in a
w.shtub. The mixture is placed where the hot
sun reach it and left to "set" for three weeks.
The mountaineers are making it openly in their
homes without violating either the Federal or
State law And it is quite easy to understand that
when the "Ole Hen" has "set" for three weeks
she matches rare brood of troubls
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who go from the great cities on her border across
her territory to the seashore on Sunday, nor
against her own citizens who enjoy their day of
rest in any decent recreation. These laws, like so
many other moral laws in other parts of the coun-
try. are in innocuous desuctudc and only read as
are the latest sensational novels, for diversion But
instead of repeating these modern blue laws, the
agitation in New Jersey is for more such laws, pos
sibly with a view to making the statute books of
that State best sellers.
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DRILL THRILLS VETERANS.
Cavalry Gives Exhibition for G. 4
Il. on White House EllIpse.

Like men awakened from dream Of
fifty years, hundreds Of Grand Army vet
Grams gazed with delight at Troops J. l.
and NJ, of the Fifth United States Cav
airy charge back and forth across the
White House Ellipse in an exhibition drill
yesterday afternoon. Scattered through
the thousands of spectators that crowded
about the circular field. the boys of the
'GU's" cheered wildly as sabers clashed in
sham battle.
The veterans seemed stimulated with
new life. Their eyes never left the dash
ing figures on the field. They marvelcd
at the completeness Of modern military
training as they compared the staunch
Young men before them with the willing
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Special Coucsi pndtnt Of Tie Washington Herald.
New York. Sept. 2S.-Broadway is be
ginning to take ON its winter fac. IN
the summer the street Is mostly mado
up Of folk who come in to look it over
and say: SO this is Broadway. My.
what A pretty place" But in the win
te- the street is very mich iitferen;
1t represents the typical plyGloi life Of
the metropolis
There are the ''chicken'' in their nifty
duds strutting up and dowr. Iolfing ac-
tors. some of them all beercd-up. vaudc-
Williams. limousned actresses. low-neck-
cd hacks with lolling occupants and the
pell-mcll of traffic. Theaters are popping
open nightly.
The Broadway types have returned
from their summer hide-outs. The wine
is being spilled and the tables kicked
over in the cafes. The actors and &C
torines are dancing nightly at the Sixty
Club. Some tripping the light fantastic
and others tripping all the light fan
TASTES that come near them. But this
is the Bright Licht-and they must have
their tunSstens in this town.
Such a lot of young men are missing in
New York. There's that young Mr.
Kinkead. the trusted cashier who was
tuSteu once 100 often anu mas MOI DeeH
heard from. Neither did he mail the
money back. Frank O'Brien concludes
that he has been gone so long that
only one solution remains. He must
be trying to find the slot marked CITY
Letters in the downtown postoffice.
Newspaper testers lead a hard life.
Bide Dudley. who writes a column for
the Evening World was walking up
Broadway and met an actress.
'Hows your column she asked.
Dudley must be jolly. so he queried:
Newspaper spinal?''
i've got real joke for you. He
swallowed a girl"
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NEW-IORK-DNY-R-DAX
6/
O.O..Ms:lNTYRE.

How is that
We'll he drank little milk made
hot"
And so II goes every day. The news
PAPER testers must stand for these
crudities.
one Of the distinguished visitors of the
week In New York was DIR. +. NJ. Planck.
nf Kansas City. who dropped in to de-
liver Il l,cture at the Ritz. DR.. Planck
represents the new type of physicians
combing all that is good in the drugless
and other systems as well for the ale
Walton of pain.
Il believe that We were all meant to be
well" he says. The cause sometimes is
mental. sometimes physical. but wher-
ever it is the patient must got rid of his
fear. Fear is a poison that retards get
ting we'll
Thomas W. Lamont. now powerful
figure in the world of finance. used to
butcher the brain throbs of young re-
porters while on the copy desk of the
New York Tribune in the early '90's. He
drew a salary of so week and was lay
ing up snug fortune when he was sent
out one day to interview E. c. Converse.
a banker.
Lamont had snaDpy way about get
ting in to see Converse. who had denied
him admission. He got in without being
offensive and Converse. who was con-
solidating some manufacturing companies.
took n liking TO the copy reader who had
been sent out on a special assignment.
He gave him n job. and Lamont began
to grasp the next rung up. He kept
grasping, too. until he landed partner
ship in j. Pierpont Morgans banking
house. He still has a warm spot in his
heart for newspaper work. 1t seems.
however, that bankers get n little more
money.
Mike Selwyn has found a downtown
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The process OF tanning the meat trust is pro.
;:rcs sing. Right the top OF its financial trouble
with tho allies comes the announcement that the
c.rcasse> OF $50 reindeer have been shipped in cold
storage from Nome to Seattle TO be placed the
market in competition with bcci and There
are said TO be $4,000 reindeer in The Nome terri
tory and il the experiment is success it will he
xtcndcd until the meat packers consider it ad-
liable to corral TIE supply.
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In Announcing 'rt ii":TarH for Fire Prey cution
Day October q. New \ orh'> hc commissioner an
rnHnced uat fires, al them due to careless
ness cost the cit, 81 $izOoo.OOo year. EVERY man.
woman and child IN hC CITY has to pay SI.4I each
year for FIRE loss he said and this does GOV ver
the upkcep of the fire department and OF the water
department assigned to put out fires Ii the peo-
pie OF other cities will deI little time. Fire
Prevention Day aScertanng what the cost of
carelessncss is to them and then proceed To put
in some stop loss effort something of real value
will be accomplished.
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In order to encourage parents to attend the
services, toys have been placed in the pews OF
church in Plainfed, n. J., for the amusement OF
the children And it will be just like some parents
TO put their offspring in the pews while they go
JOY riding
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AN AUTUMN THOUGHT.

What if clouds the skies are hiding?
Still the sunlight is abiding.
What if chilling winds are blowing?
Everywhere the grain is growing,
And for all life's evils lurking
Natures forces still are working,
Garnering her golden treasure
For our need in plenteous measure
(Coputght. uk)
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The fugitive assassin OF Count AndreaS
Putosky Austrian governor OF Cralicia, has sur
rendered himself in New York and applied for
citizenship in the United States The crime was
committed in 1908 Here is in which with
holding the hyphcn will save the State Department
lot of work
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sUFFRAGIsTS SEEK RECRUITS.
Congregational Z nion Holds Meetings
While visitors Are Here.

Taking advantage OF the rare oppor-
tunity offered to speak to thousands of
visitors from all over the country and
at the same time enlist the aid of visit
ing sunragists of national reputation, the
Congressional Union for women's Suf-
fraee of the District began a series OF
street meetings last night.
Miss Elsie Hill and Mrs. Brooke. OF
Washington. and Mrs. II. Weed. OF Con-
necticut, made addresses at Fifteenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue and at
Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue.
During the week the meetings will be
held twice daily. and women who have
taken an active interest In the suffrage
movement In other States VIII pake
short talks.
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Since the war began it has been discovered that
dyes can be made in the United States, and now
j, is announced that the right kind OF clay for
making dolls has been found in this country. If
tie lasts much longer, it may result in prov
rg that the United States really is independent
The Washington herald., 1915-09-29

Maxim Gorky is fighting as volunteer
with the Russian army In Galicia. Revo-
lutionary socialist and always "agin the
government" Gorky might have been ex-
pected to be the last man to shoulder
arms In the cause OF the Car. But this
war has changed many q revolutionary
into an ardent patriot.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-29

The woman manager OF fashion show in New
' orl stepped 10 tho front OF the stage and said:
"If there are any men in the audience not with
their wives who wish to leave will be glad to
have them do 50 quietly now for about to
show Sorlc things OF interest to ihe women that
may cmbarrass tic men" OF course shC got her
tip from the proc ARE OF the judges III sensational
divorce and other trials in warning the just
bctore the shocking testimony comes and the men
responded irr>t aS the women do by sitting tight.
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Commenting the Anglo-French loan the
German newspapers observe that the United States
is putting its money the wrong horse Not for
long
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Secretary Daniels doesn't believe there is a
single German spy in the Navy Department. How
comforting.
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In other words. Austria-Hungary discovered
that she couldn't get DR.. Dumba home without
recalling him.
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A Line O. Cheer Each Day G the Year.
BY JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.

First printing of original poem. written dSily
for Tho Washington Herald
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y hcnr,cr there i absolutely nothing doing in
tho smart SCI Sorucbodv rob, Pres on Gibson or
he loses -oulr;hn" He must he awiullv care
ic>> W.T. h Nah1.lI,> \ccording 4 Newport
dispatch he has ir~l offered reward OF $1,000
ior th' rC;"rr Cl 4 .'uHnGranmCd Match, some mn
purl.l;i: pIr.r:>. and tho manuscript OF nc-act
pia,. winch .,t,rstcd steel box in his Ii
Lrary. N"n ,,ly .h"nld ANY want to steal
one at NJ i,.hs"n> i.ar,. We give il up, unle< $
il Wa Jc"'.r,e /. consisted ni but i single act.
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American composers, it is said, to benefit
by the war. According to former Secretary Will
lam ]. Bryan, firm demand for more chin music
is already making itself felt in the Western States
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Morning Smiles.

Staylate (as clock strikes twelve)-
'Tis now the witchinS hour of night
when graveyards yawn-
The Girl (suppressing one)-Can you
blame them?-Boston Transcript
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The Torment of Nerves.
by JOHN ID. BARRY,

doctor OF my acquaintance, in talking to me
about nerves the other day, told me that he thought
that nervousness had been greatly increased by the
use of the telephone
1T has tended to keep women particularly on
the jump. One patient of mine, a woman who is
very active and is interested in good many causes
OF one kind or another, came to ME the other day
and asked for systematic treatment. She was very
much amused when | told her that the first thing
would require OF her would be to give up talk
ing on the telephone. She insisted that the tcle-
phone was great convenience and that she would
be worse off without it. But | told her that it in
vovcd her in great many complications that
were OF no account whatever and that she could
cut out with profit. When she saw that was
serious she agreed to follow my advice
"Unquestionably great many women suffer
from telephone talks. The telephone keeps many
OF them from having the long intervals OF rest at
home that they used to have. 1t invades their
privacy in the most ruthless way Moreover. the
mere talking through the telephone tends to make
them nervous. Very few women as a matter Of
fact know how to the telephone wisely They
strain when they talk and they talk too long
AS heard this comment | wondered if it were
not only true in itself, but suggestive of even
greater truth. The telephone is unquestionablv
great convenience; but most OF abuse it as we
abuse so many things in life As a matter of fact
to do anything in strained way and to allow our
selves to be upset by intrusons and vexations is in
itself nervousy wasteful. Ii people can't use the
telephone without injuring themselves they ought
to give up using it.
But far more important than giving it up is to
learn how to use it wisely. Many of the things that
doctors make people give up arc perfectly harm
less in themselves The trouble lies wholly in their
abuse
The worst Of nerves have ever known
was that OF woman happily married, with several
children, whose husband suddenly seized with
a violent infatuation for another woman and elop-
cd When she heard the news she collapsed took
to her bed and stayed there for twenty years The
little messengers OF sensation had apparently be-
come hopclesSly diseased by the shock
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The Insolvent-Tell me, Is it crime
to be poor?
The Lawyer-Not in this State. sir
The charge for my opinion on the sub
ject is 81 Pay my clerk and go out
quietly-Judge.
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A boy reaches far across the table and
helps himself to butter.
Father-What did you do that for?
Haven't you a tongue?
Son-Yes. sir. but my tongue isn't as
long as my arm.-Congregatona
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BY accident, this woman made the acquaintance
have created kind of profession The two
became friends. The nerve doctor was very much
interested in the She watched it for long
time before she expressed an opinion. Then some
friends OF the invalid asked her what she thought
Il believe that the case is curable" she said.
Soon aterward she invited to give treatment
She began very slowly. She would call occasional
ly and have little talks with her patient irving to
find some interest that should serve as a first step
She discovered that the woman liked flowers and
had once taken great delight in the cultivation OF
a garden. So she proceeded to talk about flowers
Then she bought flowers. She would leave the
flowers beside the bed. Gradually the woman be-
gan to arrange those flowers herself After a time
she would be persuaded by her nerve doctor to sit
up during their talks A month later she succeeded
in getting up and sitting on a chair Finally she
was carried out to the garden where she could
bask in the sunshine and watch the flowers
1t was two years in all before she was able to
walk about and really begin to live again. Mean
while her doctor was educating her stimulating
her mind, creating interest in living, giving her a
new kind OF religion which was resll,, The old
kind in practical terms.
This woman. by the way, objects to being call
ed doctor. She says that she is a teacher She
simply tries to show people the importance of re-
lating themselves to the life about them in as MANY
normal ways as possible. She calls it Establish
ing ties"
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1t is important for to keep our nerve cells
healthy, not for our sakes alone, but out of
consideration for Others Nervous people create
nervousness in those about-them. They oblipe
others TO share their burdens without losing any
of the weight themselves. By hurried manner a
nervous person can create havoc as he goes
through the day. Without meaning to Be rude he
may seem rude. and he may provoke continual re-
sentiment. Without meaning to be in hurry. he
will make others feel hurried and upset.
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Copyright. 1901 1902, & Brothers)
Copyright 1915. by Mcclure Syndcate)
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Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Fahncstock and
MISS Fahnestock have closed Harrison
House, at Newport, and are visiting in
LenoN and returning TO their Washing
ton home by motor and Via New York.
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HAMILTON'S CLEVER STROKE.

Published by special 7,ih tie President through
The Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.
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Many people suffer in their nerves because they
don't know how to establish ties, that is they don't
know how to establish healthy ties. Most OF them
are exceedingly adrot in establishing ties that are
unhealthy. The most nervous man of nv. ac-
quaintancc, the most unhappy, is of those peo-
pie who are continually resisting the forces of ma
ture. 1t makes him miserable to think that he has
been cast this world, surrounded bv a multitude
OF worlds, like ship the waves OF the ocean.
To hear him talk one might fancy that he was the
only human being that had been treated in this
way.
He is suffering, of course, from an inAamed case
OF egotisnl. II he could only get away from him
self he would realize that he was merely experi-
encing the universal fate OF man and that to COM
and selfish. Moreover he would see that in resist
ing the forces of nature. in converting them into
enemies, he making himself his own enemy
ne was missing the great lesson of life the lesson
OF accepting the forces OF nature of keeping in
harmony with them, and drawing from them
everything that good.
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Tomorrow DIR. Edwads will tell Of
when the Silver Dollar Was a Rare
Coin"
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Mr.. Preston Gibson. who has been
spending the. summer at Newport. 4no-
tofed to Boston yesterday to attend a
dinner given by Col. Charles Hayden at
Nahant. and from there will proceed to
his camp at Lake Edward Quebec
where he will finish his new play.
The Washington herald., 1915-09-29

Occasionally disease, as in the case of
that woman whose husband deserted her comes
from causes outside ourselves. But such cases are
exceptional and they would be much more excep-
tional il our habits OF life sustained us in main
tanning poise. 1t is almost wholly through our
lack OF poise that most nervous trouble is due
There arc people who go through life disorgan-
lied, unbalanced doing everything with wholly
is the waste that causes most Of the nervous dis
orders-> II we knew how to live we shouldn't have
any OF these troubles. 1t is morc.o less uncon-
scious realization OF this fact that causes many
They say that the trouble is "all imagination" But
there is such thing diseased imagination. 1t
can indeed be the of fearful sickness and
unhappiness
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Wears Daughter-Im sorry to hear
you were at the Methodist tea meeting.
Miss Jones I cannot think what argu-
ments have caused you To change your
creed
Miss Jones-Well. miss. first it was
their sultany cake, but II was their am
sangwidges as converted me, miss
Tit-Bts.
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What you must do. son. Is to lay
the foundation for solid business sue
cess
i"That's my idea. dad. Now. first OF all.
require sound financial backing"
II get you. son. I'll provide car far.
until YOU land a job. b.''-Birmingham Age
Herald