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The Washington herald., 1915-08-29
MANY ARE GIVEN
SUMMER outings
Eleven Hundred Mothers and
Children Treated to Vaca-
tions at Camps.
BABY HOSPITAL IS FULL
Institution Still Open and Crowded.
Camps Pleasant and Good VIII
Closed for Season.

Eleven hundren mothers and children
given two weeks vacation apiece this
summer. Forty-two days of good food
and fresh air and sunshine. with plenty
of clean fun and no cayes or worries
This has added days and months to the
span of life of the 1,100 tired mothers
and tired and sick kiddies.
The vacation period Is over Camps
Good VIII and Pleasant have closed. The
Baby Hospital Camp is still open and will
remain open as long as the money lasts.
Many of the babies are so i'll that 1t
would have meant sure death to have
closed the camp and sent them back to
the city, and the gain and upbuilding
work of the summer would have been
lost. The camp has been running beyond
its capacity all summer. and at times 1t
was necessary to use the bathtub for a
bed Even now there is a waiting list of
babies which should have been brought
to a camp of this kind
Coin Card Campaign.
One Of the friends of this camp. Henry
Lansburgh, is so much interested in its
work that he Is conducting coin-card
campaign of his own to keep the camp
open. He states he will continue this
even after the camp closes and start a
fund for next year.
Babies are still coming-babies under
2 years of age, too i'll to get a good hold
on life in the city. Fresh air, plus good
medical and nursing care, work the
usual miracles which are constantly hap
pening at the camp.
1t is planned next year to increase
greatly the capacity Of the camp, there
by increasing its efficiency. Mothers as
well as sick babies are taken to it and
taught how to keep their children well
after they go home. When thy return
to their homes, the nurses Of the WASH
ington Diet Kitchen follow up during the
year what has been gained at camp, in
an effort to make the improvement per-
manent.
Camp Pleasant closed its camp season
with rousing party given by commit
tee of men and women from the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing. Games and
races and eats" were enjoyed and sun
dry prizes were dispensed
The committee was as follows: Mes
danes Julia West Hamilton. B. E. Fish
er. ]. Devaul, l. Letcher, l. G. Walker,
and G. Miller; Misses e. Ashton. A. Kir-
by. B. Saunders. K. Pinckney. B. Smoot,
and Messrs. w. L Mills and Lewis Mutt.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-29
Rates on Matches Suspended,

The Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion yesterday suspended until De-
cember 2S. proposed increases in rates
on matches in carload lots from Du-
luth. Minn.. to Little Rock and other
Arkansas points. The commission
wants time to investigate the reason
ableness of the proposed increases,
which range from 1 1-2 to 71-2 cents
per hundred pounds. over all the prin-
cipal railroads in that territory.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-29
Expect to Raise F.4 Soon.

Admiral Bush. commanding the naval
station at Honolulu. reported to the
Navy Department yesterday that the
F-4. the submarine that sank March
IS with the loss of twenty-one lives.
soon would be raised. Stationary pom
toous have been erected directly over
the undersea boat and six chains have
been fastened around It. The work Of
lifting the czaft Hill be begun 8 eness
The Washington herald., 1915-08-29
Barrie's New Play.

J. NJ Barrie will this season give New
York an entirely new nfty-minute play.
the first work Of this kind to come from
that author since his celebrated little
ma sterpiece, The Twelve-Pound Look.
Mr.. Barrie's newest short piece 10 called
.Rosalind," In quality and manner
departure from anything that has yet
como from him. In "Rosalind" Mr. Bar
rie takes middle age under his wing The
theme of the piece arises from one or
Barrie's old confessions-namely. that ~
a young man he always found that as
soon as he became engaged to the
daughters he invariably discovered Il
really was the mothers with whom he
was in love. Mr.. Barrie's new piece will
be played September In conjunction
with Robert MArshall's three-act conn
edy. "KiIiicrankie.' In which Marie
Tempest. Francis Wilson. Ann Nurdock.
and Graham Browne viii act the chief
parts
The Washington herald., 1915-08-29
WEST v1RG1N1ANs TO MEET.

Vice President and Corresponding
Secretary VIII BE Elected.
The board of governors Of the West
Virginia, Society in the District has ar
ranged to hold the monthly meeting for
September in Old Masonic Temple on
Friday evening. An address will be given
by Oscar Price. auditor for the Interior
Department
An election will be held to I'LL vacancy
in the ONCE of one vice president. caused
by the removal from the District OF DR..
Camden. and the resignation of the cor
responding secretary OF the society.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-29
A pouble No.hit Game.

Kansas City. Aug. H. double no.
hit gams was the marvel feature IN
the cone9st between Fort Scott and
Rich Hill Neither shfnn nor Nahlsg.
the. opposing pitchers. allowed MI.
an error giving Fort SCOTT the only
run Of the game. Mah1es struok aSe
fourteen msu and ghtnos otGGts
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fcraetL For his materials, also, he must
have sustenance for the three orders. his
tools, land to dwell In, and gifts, and
weapons. and meat. and ale, and clothes,
and whatever else the three orders need.
without these he cannot keep the tools.
and without these tools he cannot do any
of those things which he has been hidden
to do.
Whence did Alfred derive his idea
of the three orders oratorcs, bella
torres. aboratores? Are they the
Guardians. Warriors and Husband
men of Plato's Republic" derived
from a commentary or reported by
some learned clerk? King Alfred had
at any rate need for originality If
he was to apply Greek ideas in his
kingdom. for Wessex was still a
tribal state. Germanic in spirit and
institutions, full OF crude barbaric
survivals from the days of heathcn-
ism. but Christia nized and in some
degree centralized by the efforts of a
long succession OF churchmen and
kings" When the Danish invasion
began. the work Of organizing and co.
~ordinat!ng central and local govern
ment was under way. But the socia.
disintegration was that which Is
s~ymptomatic of po.itica! transition.
Alfred did not build de novo. but he
saved and improved the Old. His sue
cess IN war gave him the prestige
without which GENERALIZATION would
hardy have been possible. The de-
liverer became naturally the recor-
%structor.
His reign was an early stage in
the final formation Of British lnstitu-
tons. The Danes had a contribution
still to make before the Normaus
could apply the finishing touches. Tae
Saxon constitution could never by It.
self have developed Ensland's inn
perial greatness: and is It not rea-
sonable to say hat England had To he
either the centre of an empire or a
province of n continental empire ?
Alfred's finest contribution to English
civilization was his culture of justice,
the guarantee of the freeman's rights.
The chapter on The Alfredian State
is an excellent thing. with It's surve,
OF the works of justice. finance. pub
lie religion and education. and that
on "Alfredian Society" is nicely done
"Alfredian literature would suffer no
injustice were 1t dismissed with a
page or two instead of a long chapter.
but the specialist has "A right to the
fulness of his pleasure.
King .Alfred's life is usually sup
posed to have closed in peace. but this
says the author, IS an erroneous as
sumption based upon the silence If
the Chronicle: There are indications,
both in Ethelwerd's chronicle and in
Alfred's " writings. that the Col
den Age Of his dreams remained To
the last an unattained ideal"
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In n handsome quarto volume. a
fine example of French artistic typog-
raphy. decorated with a profusion OF
Photographic reproductions. full page
and embodied in the text. AMBROSE
NoLLAND has written a very complete
monograph on Pdui C6sdnne (Am-
broise Nolland, Paris). The pictures
are numerous enough to represent
the bulk OF the artists painting: only
two. one a water color. give an idea
of his coloring: all the others are
translated into black and white. Even
more numerous and truer to the orig
inal are the reproductions of draw
ings at the beginning and end OF the
chapters and in the body OF the text.
They will enable the reader to un.
derstand what Cezanne stands for in
modern French art.
The chief value of the work, how
ever. lies in NJ. Volland's text. He
has wEtten a biography. it is true,
but has tried above all to pe~rpe,uate
the painters personality. For the
e'rlier years he has drawn on the remi-
niscences OF those who were intimate
with him: after he came to know
him himself he can trust to his MEM
DRY. This supplies him with many
bits OF conversation and with long
interviews, which appear in the form
OF dialogues. So does an interview
Of NJ. Nolland with lola in which
they discussed Cezanne and his work.
Interspersed also are the authors APP
precautions OF particular pictures. 1t
is a delightful and entertaining book.
written with a touch that only a
Frenchman can give.
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T~rOIIOpc's Cigars.

Anthony Trollope, who has reached
his centenary, prided himself on hav-
ing reduced the writing OF novels-and
good noyels-to something like a me-
chanical process, devoting to the work
30 many hours q day and timing him
self to an output of so many words an
hour. His advice to the literary as
pirant was to glue hims self to his seat
and write, but he himself had another
source of inspiration.
One wall OF his library was devoted
to rows of little ~cupboards. or bins, "A Y
the London Chronicle, each with a sep
arate glass door and filled with cigars
stacked across and across like timber IN
allow free circulation OF air, \ pointed
sud in the wood above the door ind,-
Gated the bin In use, and as soon as any
one hin was cmptied the stud Mas
removed To above the next door and
the empty receptacle retlled from the
big chests which Trollope obtained
straight from Havana.
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LECTURERS QUEER LODGING.
Refused Place I'm House. Mn. stan.
ton slept In Carriage.

Even the man who does not sympa'hl,s
with the movement for women's rights
cannot help admiring the leaders NJ IT,
Elizabeth Cady stanton proved more than
once, says the YoWth's Conn dniou. tha,
she had both physical and moral courage
of a high order. She had often. say her
b~iographers in "Heroines Of Modem
Progress" to utter her message under
the most trying circumstance.
Once in Michigan a party OF speakers
visited a deaf and dumb institution, Mrs.
Stanton had just said. There is one com.
fort In visiting this place, We shall not be
asked TO speak" when the superintendent
came up with. Ladies. the pupils are
assembled in the chapel ready to hear
you" They spoke. while the superin.
tendent repeated in sign language what
they said. Al another time their boa,
was icebound in the middle OF the Missis.
sippi River. Some one shouted. Speech
on woman suffrage They rose 10 the
occasion. and there at midnight made
several new converts.
In Kansas Mrs. Stanton one night was
refused lodging in a house. and ensconcei
herself in the carriage. Il had just fallen
into a gentle slumber." she wrote. when
a chorus of grunts and a violent shaking
Of the carriage revealed to me the fact
that / was surrounded by those long noset
black pigs so celebrated for their courage
and ~pertinacity. They had discovered
that the iron steps Of the carriage made
most satisfactory scratching posts 'A,ts.
thought ]. before morning ! shall 10 10.
voured.'" She piled the whip upon them,
u without effect: so she went TO sleep
and let them scratch at their plci-.r-
Il had a sad night of II. and never trtsi
the carriage again. although | had nar'
equally miserable experiences within four
,rullc "
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Buckeye Statesmen Of 80.

1t is really a chapter in the life
of William Mckinley that DANIEL J..
RYAN exhibits in Masters Of Men. a
Retrospect in Presidential Politics
,McClelland and Company, Columbus,
Ohio). an innocent little sketch Of
the Buckeye participation in the cam
paign of "a. What made Ohio the
rival OF Virginia as the Mother State
of Presidents? The early settlers of
Ohio were men OF high as we'll as
positive" character, educated men
who came with the definite purpose
of building up a great Western"
commonwealth. From their ''cul-
tured" homes in Virginia, Pennsylva-
mia. New Jersey and New England
they brought full formed political con-
victions, Hamiltonian or J~effersonian:
Given these two dispositions. ag-
gressive and positive, you will pro-
duce men who love political conflict
and public honors, n who think
enough of their party to give time.
labor and thought to its success To
this disposition and temper the author
attributes the implication OF all Ohio
in the Vaccinations Of Burr. Edward
hAiiEts an = u SNaN' ~ allh
head of the Jeffersonian party in the
State, fought Burr; John Smith, one
Of the first Buckeye United States
Senators, was killed politically by his
alliance. whether actual and seditious
or innocent, with the ex-Vice-Presi-
dent. Ohio men made almost a civil
war Of it. Mr.. Ryan calls the Buck
eye roll resoundingly, and toots the
Buckeye horn: at was a we'll schooled
politician from Ohio that seized on
portunity in her flight. and made
Abraham Lincoln the Republican
nominee in 1860. Just before the re-
suit OF the third ballot vas announced
one and one-half votes being lacking
to make a nomination. David *. Car
ter Of Ohio said. i arise. Mr.. Chair
man. To announce the change of four
votes Of Ohio from Chase to Abraham
Lincoln and by these words wa
determined a destiny for the plain
country lawyer that led him to the
Presidency AID !.n::cr.z! tare.' 4
Cory of the Buckeyes by adoption.
John sherman. IL he believed his
nomination lost in 1880 by ~disloyalty
ON the part of his friends. nobly re-
Trained from publishing documents
that supposedly supported his conten.
ton, saying: This would only create
a controversy and perhaps betra,
confidence; which | could not do
1t is a characteristic item in on,
government by party convention, the
speech by which Garfield, presenting
Sherman's name. nominated himself
The contrast between Blaine and Sher.
man in "a Is drawn with e.ouuence
and some apparent bias:
A. In 1880 Blaine MAS the phantom
across sherman : path to the white House
O' a dismetrically opposite Temperament
and character, ne commanded a followih mi
that was passionately attached 10 his TO-
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OHI0'S C00NsKM LIBRARY.
How Early settlers Got Their
First supply Of Books.

In the autumn OF 1903 there was a
meeting OF the settlers in Dover. Sunday
Creek and Ames. Athens county. Ohio.
called primarily to consider the making
of roads. but before it ended It took up
"A side issue that. seen from this point
of view. seems to be the most important
part of the meeting. What they did
abou roads was of but passing interest.
The other matter produced far reaching
results.
1t Is recorded that Josiah True called
attention TO the need of books. Prob
ably most of those present had enjoyed
the advantages of libraries back in their
New England homes and their isolation
in their new homes in the West empha-
sized the lack OF them here. He pro-
posed a public library.
The idea was warmly welcomed, hut
how could II be secured without funds =?
The colonists were mostly poor and what
they had was not in the form of money.
There was but little money in circula-
ton and business was most easily car
ried IN In the form OF barter. Finally.
says the Columbus Dispatch. some one
suggested that all present engage in
hunting fur bearing animals during the
approaching winter, and with the pro-
ceeds OF the hun buy necessary books.
Agents of John Jacob Aston had WIS.,
tied the settlements promoting that in
dustry. and the young men had become
skilled in the chase. They entered into
the work with enthusiasm and by spring
a large store OF skins. mostly coonskins,
had been collected. Samuel Brown was
to make n visit TO Boston. going by
wagon, and II was arranged that he
should take the store of skins East with
him. stopping at Astor's place in New
York to dispose of them.
DIR. Mannaseh Cutler went along with
him TO make the selection of books.
These were bought in Boston with the
| product OF the sale of the skins. The
name adopted was The Western Ii
brary association and 1t was located al
Am"s. II was incorporated February 2,
1904. IN December II, 1904, the mem
bers OF the association met at Ames and
elected Ephraim Cutler librarian. Mr.
Brown had evidently returned with the
books for ii was voted at this meeting
TO accept hfty-one books purchased by
Samuel Brown" This was the begin
ming of the Coonskin Library.
1t is said that sixty of the youth In
hat vicinity came at once under the in.
fiuence of that library. of whom ter
graduated at ohio University. two be.
coming professors, three preachers and
five lawyers, Thomas Ewing was one
OF these, and he t~estifes in his auto.
biography to its influence upon him
Ten Coonskins that he got went into It
1t has been referred to as the first Ii.
brary on ohio soil. hut Howe says this
is an error, The public library of Gin,
cinnati was established in 1902 ant
there was s Farmers library al 3elpr;
in 1895.
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THE POET OF PROVENCE
Gracious Presence "f Wan Who
People Loved,

From his early romantic success -
golden maturity. Frederic Mi,tral ~"
Provencal poet. had n sort of lcro,d,.
destiny almost unheard of in tho roaa.
world. When he came into tho ait"
room oil the little hotel in ,rlos vLe,.
he used to lunch after a visit 10 bis 49,.
scum even the stin backed British tou,.,.
found themselves lcapinr 10 their a.,
with the rest of the company and 10.
daily returning his fine salute.
Travellers who have had the f,,,,..
to catch a glimpse of him on some a..
day at Aries. or Mines. or Orange vim
never forget the impression he mad
standing on the stone bench Of , Howa.
arena. lifting his black sombrero \. ~.
close packed crowds rose in grra, svolp,,
waves TO break into the shout "Mis,ralr,
he seemed the very symbol and type =,
the legendary youth aud JOY and boau,
Of Provence. says Elizabeth SherIor
Sergeant In the century, HI. pa,p-,,
eminence was tempered by such na,p-.
simplicity that popular frspon-e III,
was ms spontaneous as II vas sinro,,
His gracious presence dcfed time. and
he wore old age like "A wreath of myrtle
Under my eyes" wrote Mlstral in nj,
vein of antique tolerance. II see the Or.
closure and the white dome whore Hts
the snails. | shall lie hid in the vor,ls
shade. Supreme effort Of our pride W
escape ,oracious time This forbid. m,
that yesterday or to-day quickly I.
changed into u long forgetfulness And
when people ask of John % Figs, of John
the gathered. What is this dome,' ,hey
will reply: That's the tomb of tho noe,
"A poet who made songs for a hcauti,l
Provencal maid called Mircille.'
They are like mosquitoes in the Ca.
margue. scattered far and wide BIZ he
lived in Maillane. and the old mon " ,hs
countryside have seen him walking 4,
our paths. And then one day they enl
say: IT'S he whom they had chosen
King OF Provence But his nnme lives
no more save in the song Of tho hrovn
crickets.' At last ~ the end ~ their
knowledge they will say ''Iis the
tomb of a magician. for of a sixteen ravod
star the monument wears the image.
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tons: Competition did not protect
shippers against abuse OF railway
power and led to the organization OF
farmers In oranges" to fight for bet
ter local rates, to the establishment
of railway commissions and passage OF
the Interstate commerce act; failure
Of competition was not confined to
railways, other public utilities were
put under control OF commissions
the organization of capital and Of
labor. the disappearance OF free COM
petition. the abuses of combination on
one side and the other. brought us
in the opening years OF the twentieth
century to a crisis In u Industrial
history that induced a reactionary
movement. But the enforced reintro-
duction cf competition by authority
OF the Government does not do for the
public in the way Of service. econ
omy and rapid investment of capital
what the old fashioned automatic
competition did for u fathers.
Either the capitalist must have greater
freedom or Government supervision
must become far more intelligent
Finally. the president or Yale
detects. and so reported to his oxford
audience. an increasing readiness On
the part OF the pubic to experiment
with state control, even at some sac
rince or emciency. n conclusion
OF the whoie matter. as ne sees II. Is
Una "tne soiutlon Will not ne reached
untii tne pubic demand Tor state con-
tro. or industry n Tor trained civil
service go hand in hand.
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King Alfred, the "Makcr Of Eng
land"

With full appreciation of the dull
ness Of King Alfred's myth turn
ing land burning) the cakes for the
swineherd's wife, making laws and
lanterns. when compared with Char
lemagne Of the chansons de gestes or
King Arthur OF Celtic romance. BEA.
rRiCE ADELAIDE LEES, sometime tutor
of Somerville College, Oxford" finds
in modern research into English his
tory Of the last half Of the ninth
century sufficient illumination of the
dark places to Justify the contribu-
ton OF a new biography to "Alfre-
dian literature, and her Alfred the
Great: The Truth Teller, Maker Of
England tPutnams) Is thai and a
good deal more. She does not merely
set in order the facts of the English
Kings life and reign but skilfully
fixes Eng.arfd's place in that era OF
transition which lies between the en-
pire Of the Caesars and it's medieval
successor.
The myth OF Alfred Is utterly I'M
dramatic: THE elements of pity and
terror are lacking In his story as his
people told it after his death. He is
no un~conquered warrior, who can be
compared to Odin the thunder god,
no high souled victim of a lost cause
and a tragic love. His life Of quiet
virtue and unobtrusive success was
not brilliant or passionate enough to
attract court poets and chroniclers.
The influences which went to the
creation of his myth were chiefly pop
ular. ecclesiastical or academic. and
fha Viptnr nf Achlnu,, md I,,L-l-
was forgotten in the fame OF the
scholar-king, the friend OF the poor
and the favorite OF the saints" The
tradition OF Alfred's wisdom, and also
the popular tradition. ooh form in
the century after his death (S99). But
the renewal of Danish invasion
toward the close OF the tenth CEN
fury obscured the fame Of the earlier
struggle with the Vikings, and Ed
CARS peaceful reign was n golden
age In the twelfth century interest
in early English history revived. and
Alfred was newly celebrated, with en-
phasis on the militant Christianity
side. In the thirteenth century ne
was sung in popular rhyme, and in
the fourteenth the Alfredian myth
developed chiefly on ecclesiastical and
academic lines" The romantic his
torians OF the fifteenth century en-
banded the legend and colored it. In
144l Henry VI. appealed to Pope Eu-
genius Nv. for the canonization OF
"the first monarch of the famous
realm OF England" The sixteenth
century, with its revival Of learning,
was generous to Alfred, and made a
ballad OF those miserable cakes:
Where lying on the hearth TO bake
BY chance the cake ala hurne:
what. canst thou not, thou lout." auotf
she.
Take pains the same to turnc?
Thou art more quick to rake It cut
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ART IN KANSAS.
It's History as Told by Pictures
on Walls Of Omc

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